A.Dee Whaley was the son of Perry Garfield Whaley and Martha Lindsey. He married Myrtle Mae Sims in 1940. They were the parents of Reford Carl Whaley.
Sergeant
24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
Aircraft F-7A with serial number 42-64189 crashed approximately 40 miles east, southeast of Jorhart, India while enroute to Kunning in China.
Sgt Whaley is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri, together with his entire crew.
Crew members
Capt Joseph E. Haynes
1st Lt James T. Caraway
2nd Lt Raymond W. Kurzawski Jr.
2nd Lt Daniel S. Longfellow
M/Sgt George B. Abbott
T/Sgt Glenn B. Carnes
S/Sgt Leon M. Winslow.
S/Sgt Walter H. Jones
Sgt Emery E. Crouch
Sgt Alford H. Gray
Sgt A.D. Whaley
Cpl Jerome B. Brenner
The Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 22, 1944
Sgt. A.D. whaley, who was an aerial gunner with the Third Air Force, was killed in an airplane crash in the Himalayas, his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Whaley of Sevierville, was notified. Sgt. Whaley was with 12 other men in the plane which was flying the “Hump” when their plane surrounded by fog, crashed into a mountain. He had been reported missing since Aug. , and was reported dead Oct. . This was two years to the day since he was inducted into the Army. Sgt. Whaley worked in Knoxville with the C. Dean Tire Co., and later with the Aluminum Co. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. P.G. Whaley, of Maryville.
- Rank: Sergeant
- Date of birth: 4 March 1916
- Date of death: 11 August 1944
- County: Sevier
- Hometown: Sevierville
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
- Theater: China Burma India
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis County, MO
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XVIII, Top Panel
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