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Show Mt. Emmons Man Officially Listed Among War Dead County Commissioner and Mrs. Floyd Case of Mt. Emmons were notified this week by the War Department that their son, Flight Officer Keith G. Case, re-Dorted re-Dorted missing in action on July 14, 1945, is now officially listed as dead. Keith Case was born August 17, 1919, at Mt. Emmons. He graduated from the Altamont high school and attended Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university for three years where he majored in mathematics. math-ematics. He left school to fill a mission in the Central States. ?or the L. D, S. church from Tanuary, 1941 to February. 1943. The last seven months of his missionary mis-sionary work he presided over the Independence district. In July, 1943 Keith was accepted ac-cepted as an aviation cadet and received training at Shepnard Field, Texas. Washington State college, Pullman. Washington, Santa Ana, California and at Hondo. Texas. He Graduated from the Army Air Navigation 1 school at Hondo in January, 1945 and was sent to India the following follow-ing April. The outfit to which he was assigned made the entire trip by air from Fort Wayne, Indiana, down to Natal, Brazil, over the Atlantic, across Africa, a corner of Arabia, thence across India to the Bengal orovince. Here Flight. Officer Case was attached to the 20th bombing command. Keith's squadron was encaged in hauling supplies into China and later to Okinawa. On a return re-turn trip to India, the C-46 on which Keith was serving as nav-icator nav-icator was last seen leaving Bhamo, Burma, after a regularly regular-ly scheduled refueling stop. It was never aeain heard from. Besides his parents, Keith Case is survived by five sisters: Mrs. Ruth Madseri. Monroe, Utah; Dean, Gwen, Peggy Ann and Gayle of V Emmons. |
