Spurgeon Ellington
- Birth Date:
- 17.10.1919
- Death date:
- 10.12.1945
- Length of life:
- 26
- Days since birth:
- 38177
- Years since birth:
- 104
- Days since death:
- 28626
- Years since death:
- 78
- Person's maiden name:
- Spurgeon Neal Ellington
- Extra names:
- Lt. Spurgeon Ellington (Tuskegee Airman)
- Categories:
- Pilot, Victim of Catastrophe, victim
- Nationality:
- american
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Son of James A Ellington and Erma Ellington
Ex-husband of Maria Antoinette Cole
Lieut Spurgeon Neal Ellington
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55388800
In civilian life, Lt Ellington was an elementary school teacher.
He entered the military out of Fort Bragg, NC in 1942, and was trained as a pilot at Tuskegee Army Air Field. Lt. Ellington flew with the 332nd Fighter Group, 99th Fighter Squadron piloting its P-51D Mustang in the European skies.
Ellington was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery as a pilot in 1944.
In 1943, Lt. Ellington married Marie Antoinette Hawkins, but they divorced after 7 months. (Marie Antoinette ultimately became the wife of the famous singer, Nat "King" Cole.)
He was killed with another pilot, Lt Richard Hall in a plane crash during a training exercise at Crystal Lake, Georgia in 1945.
Source: geni.com, timenote.info
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