Richmond City: Wharton, Tazewll Salden, Jr

personal-war-service-record-of-virginia-s-war-dead

virginia-world-war-ii-history-commission

part-i-personal-data

first-name: Tazwell

middle-name: Selden

last-name: Wharton

suffix: Jr.

home-address: 1506 Avondale Avenue, Richmond, Virginia

county:

birthplace: Richmond, Virginia

date-of-birth: 1924-04-19

race: W

sex: Male

height-ft: 6

height-ins: 2

weight-lbs: 175

marital-status: Married

wife-maiden-name-or-husband

first-name: Frederica

middle-name: Ann

last-name: Carr

suffix:

place-of-marriage: Richmond, Virginia

date-of-marriage: 1944-07-31

children-1: None

date-of-birth-1:

children-2:

date-of-birth-2:

children-3:

date-of-birth-3:

children-4:

date-of-birth-4:

education

elementary-years: 8

high-school-years: 3

college-years: 1

other:

degrees:

occupation:

religious-affiliation: Baptist

citizen-of-what-nation: U. S.

father-s-name

first-name: Tazewell

middle-name: Selden

last-name: Wharton

suffix:

mother-s-maiden-name

first-name: Clara

middle-name:

last-name: Garbett

part-ii-military-record

means-of-entry: Enlisted

date-of-entry: 1942-12-11

place-of-entry: Washington, D. C.

rank-at-entry: Aviation Cadet V-5

first-served: Air Corps

branch-of-service: U. S. Naval Reserve

service-number: 447 42 51 (when cadet); 0-37442 (after commission)

previous-military-education-training-and-service: 1 year at V. P. I.

trained-or-stationed-within-the-united-states

camp-station-base-school-etc-place-from-date-to-date: Mt. St. Mary's College Emmitsburg, Md. Feb. 11, 1943 June 15, 1943 U. S. Naval Preflight School Athens, Ga. June 16, 1943 Sept. 3, 1943 Naval Air Station Memphis, Tenn. Sept. 4, 1943 Dec. 6, 1943 " " " Pensacola, Fla. Dec. 7, 1943 May 8, 1944 " " " Deland, Fla. May 9, 1944 July 28, 1944 Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake, Aug. 20, 1944 Sept. 13, 1944 Fla.

promoted

from-rank-to-rank-date-to-date: Aviation Cadet (Navy) 2nd Lt. U. S. M. C. R. (NAVC) May 2, 1944

information-about-overseas-service:

citations-decorations-service-medals-etc:

circumstances-of-death: Kill Accidentally

area-of-place-of-death: Bridgeport Lake, Bridgeport, Texas

date-of-death: 1944-09-13

any-other-details-known: Killed in plane crash while attached to Marine Corps Air Station, Eale Mt. Lake, Texas

photograph: No

next-of-kin

prefix:

first-name: Frederica

middle-name: Carr

last-name: Wharton

suffix:

address: 1423 Claremont Avenue, Richmond, Va.

relationship: Wife

people-supplying-this-information

prefix:

first-name: Frederica

middle-name: Carr

last-name: Wharton

suffix:

address: 1423 Claremont Avenue, Richmond, Va.

people-submitting-this-information

prefix:

first-name: Mary

middle-name: Leavell

last-name: Jerman

suffix:

address: Hampton Hills Lane, Richmond, 21, Virginia