Pfc. George May  

Pfc. George May proudly graduated from the Air Corps Technical School in September of 1941. He was Radio Operator/ Mechanic, and one of five brothers who served their country during WWII. He hailed from Foxworth, Mississippi. In his last letter home, he warned his family that when they wrote to him, he should be addressed as "Mister" and in no way indicate that they were addressing a military man. It might be a message to the enemy that Army Air Force units were in strike position in California, so soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United State Post Office at Muroc Dry Lake, CA, would know where to find "Mister" George May, B-33.

Bob May was eleven years old when his family heard that the plane in which brother George was flying was lost in the California mountains. Bob still recalls the days of waiting and the daily telegrams from Col. Davidson from March Field. He vividly remembers the last day two weeks after the first telegram. His heartbroken mother knew that there were no survivors. Later, she would hear that a second son also died in World War II. Another brother of George C. May was able to procure original Army photographs of the crash site. In an article in the Columbian Progress of Columbia, MS, on November 11, 1994, Dana Gower published copies of those original pictures loaned by Robert May. One showed the Pratt & Whitney engine as it looks today... with a giant tree growing through its cylinder.

--M.S, July 1995

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