Chamberlain, Daniel Royston

Daniel "Jack" Royston Chamberlain

Born 2/5/1919 in McMahan, TX

Died 1/28/1943 in Oahu, HI

 Veteran 
WW2"Jack Chamberlain was the son and oldest child of James (Jim) Chamberlain and Scottie (Royston) Chamberlain of McMahan. He was born on Feb. 5, 1919. His younger siblings were Sarah Irene (1920-1992), James Scott (1923-1986), and Henry Lyndon (1926-1987). Jim Chamberlain ran a general store in McMahan. He would live to the age of 99 and be remembered fondly by many whose families were kept alive by Jim’s generosity during the great Depression.
After graduating from Lockhart high School, Jack became a Fightin\' Texas Aggie. He was a cadet in Headquarters Battery, Second Battalion, Coast Artillery. He completed two years of study and then quit and enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet on December 30, 1940."
Captain "Jack and Sgt. Jacobson went up to check on an unidentified object in the waters near Pearl Harbor and lost control, crashing and exploding off Oahu. Jack is memorialized on Wall C, Tablets of the Missing, in the National Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl) on Oahu, Hawaii. He had not reached his 24th birthday."
copied and edited from THEY GAVE THEIR ALL, book by Todd Blomerth of Lockhart, TX, second printing Nov. 2016, pages 45-49

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LOST AT SEA Plane crash off Oahu Island, Hawaii 1943