1st Lt. Guy B. Tallent

 

 

 

 

 

1st Lt. Guy B. Tallent

Nov. 18, 1915 – Mar. 14, 1944

Sunset Cem., Monroe Co., Tn

U.S. Army Air Corps

 

First Lieutenant Guy B. Tallent is killed in an airplane accident

Word was received here on Tuesday by Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Tallent that their son, First Lt. Guy B. Tallent, of the Army Air Corps, had been killed in an airplane accident at Malden Army Air Field, Malden, Mo. where he was in service as an instructor.

Buy was 28 years of age. He was a graduate of Madisonville High School, Hiwassee College and the University of Tennessee.  He had received training at Maxwell Field, Al, and received his wings at Napier Field in April, 1943.

From reports, Lt. Tallent was up in a ‘plane teaching an aviation cadet named McMasters, from Memphis, the principles of Army flying when the accident occurred.  Cadet McMasters was also killed.  The direct cause of the accident is not known.

Guy had many friends here who receive the sad news of his untimely death with sincere grief.  He is survived by his parents; four sisters, Mrs. T.O. Burleson and Mrs. Glen M. Swanson, Knoxville; Mrs. Aubrey Kyker, Sweetwater, and Mrs. Avery McCuistion of South Pittsburg; four brothers, Virgil Tallent, Madisonville; W.R. Tallent, Selma, Al; Charles R. of Dothan, Al, and A.C.K. Eugene Tallent of Shaw Field, Sumter, S.C.

The bereaved ones have the sincere sympathy of many friends.

 

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Name:

Guy B Tallant

Birth Year:

1916

Race:

White, Citizen (White)

Nativity State or Country:

Tennessee

State of Residence:

Tennessee

County or City:

Monroe

 

 

Enlistment Date:

10 Sep 1940

Enlistment State:

Georgia

Enlistment City:

Fort Oglethorpe

Branch:

Air Corps

Branch Code:

Air Corps

Grade Code:

Aviation Cadet

Term of Enlistment:

Enlistment for the Philippine Department

Component:

Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)

Source:

Civil Life

 

 

Education:

2 years of college

Civil Occupation:

Retail managers

Marital Status:

Single, without dependents

Height:

68

Weight:

159

 

Researcher and Designer

Joy Locke & Joe Irons