[or-roots] Challenge - SPALDING, Bruce Wayne, obituary, etc

[cklooster at aol.com]

Great research!  Now about that missing bomber with colonels Smith and Hodge....  Was it ever located?  You can't just leave us hanging; we need the rest of the story!

Carla K.
Tanana, Alaska
Canyonville, Oregon


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Subject: Re: [or-roots] Challenge - SPALDING, Bruce Wayne, obituary, etc


The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., May 5, 1949, page 1

SPALDING RITES ARE HELD TUES. 
Goldendale Mourns Death of Local Boy Who Loses Life Trying To Find Missing Plane

Goldendale was saddened last week when it learned of the death of Lt. Bruce Wayne Spalding Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2015E">Spalding, who was killed on an errand of mercy last Thursday as he searched for a missing B-26 light bomber plane. Lt. Spalding's plane was found by rescue crews on a 3500 foot mountain, approximately 50 miles west and a little north of Portland, according to information received.

It was stated that the plane had apparently been flying straight and level when it struck about 300 feet below the crest of one of the highest ridges in that part of the coast range, and that there was no evidence of engine failure, carburetor icing or lack of fuel.

The wreckage was first sighted, according to the Portland Oregoni
an, by Marvin E. Kinchen, log scaler for the Oregon-American Lumber company at 7:45 a.m. Friday morning. It was stated that Lt. Spalding had taken off from Portland air base at 6 p.m. D.S.T. Thursday evening, and was to have returned before dark. When he failed to return, the search was organized, which finally located the plane.

Well known to everyone in Goldendale, Lt. Spalding was born in Goldendale on May 27, 1923, and attended high school here, graduating in 1941.

Soon after graduation he began working in the Vancouver Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2018A">Vancouver Shipyards. He was married on April 9, 1942, to Mabel Marie Carson. They made their home in Vancouver Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2018B">Vancouver. He entered military service in February, 1943. During the war he served in the Army Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20184">Army air force, serving as a pilot and flying B-25 planes. 
When returned to civilian life, he retained a commission in the Active Reserve Air Corps.

Lt. Spalding volunteered to search for the missing plane and was on that mission when he lost his life, it was stated.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Spalding; his=2
0two daughters, Constance Marie, aged 4 and Dawn Cheryl, age 3; his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Spalding Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2015F">Spalding of Goldendale; two sisters, Mrs. Fred Hoctor of Goldendale and Mrs. Herman Umlauf Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20152">Umlauf of Klickitat, by one brother, Ray M. Spalding, who was in the submarine service at New London Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2014D">Conn., and four nieces and three nephews.

Funeral services were held from the Phillips Funeral Home on Tuesday, May 3 at 2 p.m.. Full military honors were rendered by the American Legion, and burial was made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. The Rev. Bruce Groseclose officiated at the service.

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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., May 5, 1949, page 1

RAY Spalding Surname Facts
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Ray Spalding Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20162">Spalding. Ray was called to Goldendale by the accidental death of his brother, Lt. Wayne Spalding Surname Facts
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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., May 5, 1949, page 4

KILLED AS HE TRIED TO HELP

THE SYMPATHY OF the community goes to the wife and family and father and mother and relatives of Lt. Bruce Wayne Spalding Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20164">Spalding, who died last week as he sought to find a missing plane. Pro
bably the last thing he thought of was his own safety, as he set out. There is something infinitely touching about the death of this fine young man, like the good Samaritan sought to help one in need. The first reserve pilot killed in two years, according to the Portland Oregonian, the tragic accident points out the risk taken by Reserve and National Guard Surname Facts
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On the part of the people of Goldendale, The Sentinel desires to express its sincere sympathy to the Spalding Surname Facts
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The Columbian, Vancouver Surname Facts
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LISTED DEAD - Bruce W. Spalding Jr., 25, Vancouver Surname Facts
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ding failed to return from a search mission for a B-26 bomber missing since April 21.

LOCAL MAN IS LISTED AS KILLED

Bruce W. Spalding Jr., 25-year-old Vancouver Surname Facts
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Further details on the pilot's reported death were not available at press time today.

The young Vancouver Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20190">Vancouver for the past year.

An army air force veteran, Spalding 
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20167">Spalding was said to have been an experienced and competent pilot. He took off from air rescue operations base in Portland at 7 last night to aid in the search for a B-26 bomber missing in the area since April 21. 

Instructed to return before dark, nothing was heard from him until the plane's wreckage was discovered today.

Wreckage was reported sighted in a wooded area north of Hillsboro, Ore Surname Facts
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About 10:30 this morning a logger's report indicated the wreckage of the plane had been sighted in that area, after which helicopters and radio jeeps were dispatched to the scene.

Spalding attended high school in Goldendale, after which he entered the service and joined the air force. He was discharged from the army in 1946, and moved to Vancouver Surname Facts
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The Columbian, Vancouver Surname Facts
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SPALDING, April 28 near Elsa, Oregon State Board


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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20195">Vancouver, two daughters, Constance Marie and Dawn Cheryl, both at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wayne Spalding Surname Facts
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The Oregonian, Portland, OR., April 22, 1949, page 1

PLANE LOST NEAR HERE, 3 ABOARD B-26 
Overdue In Flight From Hamilton Surname Facts
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Picture on Wirephoto Page An airforce B-26 light bomber enroute from Hamilton Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2015B">Cal., to Portland airport with three men aboard was many hours overdue Thursday night and feared missing, the air rescue service at McCord Surname Facts
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Early Friday the Presidio at San Francisco released the names of two occupants as follows: Air Force Colonel Surname Facts
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They were enroute to study unification services in the nine western states, the army said.

Third occupant was not identified.

The twin-engined high speed tactical bomber was last heard from at 11:28 a.m. when it called the CAA communications station at Portland from a point south of Portland at an altitude of 7000 feet and requested permission to make a let down on instruments through the clouds, which then extended to within 1200 feet of the ground in this area.

No Word Received

The pilot then called the control tower at the field at 11:39 a.m., airforce officials said, and asked for landing instructions. He said he was then about three minutes, or about ten miles, south of the airport.

The plane was never heard from again. It's gasoline supplies would have been exhausted at 2:30 p.m., according to the flight plan the pilot filed when he took off from Hamilton Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2017D">Hamilton field at 9:28 a.m. The pilot did not answer the t
ower's broadcast of landing instructions, airforce officers explained.

The air rescue service at McCord Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20175">McCord made a teletype check of airports along the route and failed to locate the plane. An aerial search was then ordered to start when weather permits. Low clouds over the hills from Portland north to McCord Surname Facts
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Search Set Up Here

Headquarters for the search were established at Portland late Thursday with Capt Surname Facts
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Captain Smith Surname Facts
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ard


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A half dozen air rescue planes accompanied Captain Smith Surname Facts
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Anyone who saw or heard the missing plane about noon Thursday is asked to call the national guard office.
Additional details on page 21.

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The Oregonian, Portland, OR., April 22, 1949, page 21

PLANE'S FATE POSES PUZZLE

See Story on Page 1 Also Portland pilots were at a loss to explain what may have happened to the twin-engined light bomber from Hamilton Surname Facts
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They point out that the airplane has a record of being hard to fly on instruments under icing conditions and that its speed may have carried it into the hills in any direction out of Portland while it was letting down through the clouds for a landing here. No more definite expla
nation was forthcoming Thursday from any airforce source.

Sister Plane Lost

The missing B-26 is the same as the Oregon State Board


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The plane, which cruises 300 miles an hour and faster, is designed to be flown by a single pilot, without the aid of a co-pilot. There is room for two or three crewmen or passengers, however. The reserve training center at McCord Surname Facts
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overTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20178">McCord field has two of the fast bombers, as does the national guard at Portland. The missing plane, however, is believed to be a regular air force plane, although the identity of those aboard will not be released until the fate of the plane is known and the next of kin notified.

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The Oregonian, Portland, OR., April 29, 1949, page 1

SEARCH PLANE FEARED LOST

The week-long search for the airforce's missing B-26 light bomber with three men aboard claimed another plane Thursday night when an airforce reserve pilot and plane disappeared at dusk, presumably in the area of northwest of Forest Grove Surname Facts
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The 650 horsepower low-winged monoplane, piloted by Bruce Spalding Surname Facts
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ove.

He was never heard from again. Neither was the plane seen by anyone in the area, so far as air rescue officers could determine Thursday night.

Fuel Out at 11 p.m.

Spalding was alone in the two-place plane. He had full tanks of fuel, sufficient for 3½ to 4 hours of flying. He was instructed to return before dark.

Col. Jackson W. Lewis, commanding officer of the 2345th airforce reserve training unit from McCord Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A2016D">Spalding was out of fuel by 11 p.m.(PDT).

The weather remained good with only scattered occasional showers all evening, Col. Lewis said. There was no indication of the fate of the plane, but Col. Lewis pointed out that the pilot might have crashlanded, and be awaiting rescue. He urged anyone in the area who had heard or seen the plane between 7 and 11 p.m. (PDT) to call the air rescue service at MU 1153.

Spalding was to search the canyons an ridges in a square running from Banks Surname Facts
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Capt. Joseph Smith Surname Facts
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','Related Resources',null,null,200,750,300);" onmouseout="TGN.Util.HoverTip.startHideHoverTipTimer();" id="kwl34A20172">Smith, in charge of the air rescue reserve, immediately dispatched an air force amphibian to search the area all night, while ground crews under Lt. Cmdr. R.W. Finley were rushed to the scene with radio jeeps.

This was posted for reference only. I am not related to, nor am I researching this family. If you have additional information about what's mentioned above, please post it as a reply to this message.

Posted: 23 May 2004 by Jeffrey_Elmer

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