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AVIATION RADIOMAN SECOND
CLASS GEORGE COOKMAN WILSON
graduated from Collingswood (NJ) High School in 1938. Entering the Navy
in March 1941, he received training at Noroton Heights CT. He was sent
to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, and shipped out to Hawaii in
July, 1941. His plane was burned at one of the Hawaiian Islands on
December 7, 1941. On his first flight after Pearl Harbor, he returned to
Pearl with his PBY aircraft full of bullet-holes. He had seen action flying out of
Hawaii, and at Guadalcanal.
George Cookman Wilson was the radio operator in a Navy PBY-1
Catalina Patrol bomber, which, on a three plane bombing mission, collided with another
aircraft
while on the bomb run, near Bougainville. His
body was not recovered, and he was declared dead by the Navy on December
10, 1945. He was survived by his father, Mr. Raymond Edgar Wilson, of
115 E. Clinton Avenue, Oaklyn NJ, and a sister.
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