Born 20 Feb 1919 Blue Mound, Macon County, Illinois

High School Class of 1937

Employed as a metal worker with the Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Co. of Decatur, Illinois.

16 Oct 1940 registered for the "draft"

Enlisted (16036170) in the Air Corps on 16 Dec 1941 at Chicago, Illinois

Basic military training and classification at Keesler Field near Biloxi, Mississippi

Rifle range qualification on the .30 cal carbine rifle at Atlantic City, New Jersey

B-29 Flight Engineering School at Lowry Field near Denver, Colorado

B-29 combat crew training at Pratt AAF, Kansas

1944: deployed to Chakulia Airfield, India in the CBI Theatre

Hsinching Airfield (runway A-1), China designated as forward staging base

KIA 14 Dec 1944 on the mission to bombard the railway yards at Rangoon, Burma

Tail Gunner: 16036170James A Vermillion TSgt ILL 14-12-1944 B-29 #42-24726

TSgt James A Vermillion (1919-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

Newspaper excerpt:

Memorial service for missing flyer this Sunday

Memorial services for TSgt. James A. Vermillion will be held Sunday, March 17, at 2 p.m. in Geils chapel, Bensenville, DuPage County, Illinois.

TSgt. James A Vermillion entered service in December 1941, and received training at Keesler field, Mississippi; Atlantic City, N.J.; Lowry Field, Colorado; and Pratt AAF, Kansas. He was a member of the 25th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bombardment Group (VH) of the Army Air Force.

TSgt Vermillion was reported missing in action December 14th 1944, while serving as flight engineer aboard a B-29 in the China, Burma, India theater.

He was presumed dead December 15, 1945, according to word received by his parents Mr. and Mrs. John A. Vermillion, Route 2, Bensenville.

Besides his parents, he leaves six bothers and five sisters, Glen at home; Pvt. John serving with the Army in Italy; Mrs. Mary McCarty and Mrs. Elsie Schuld, Port 1 Chicago. Calif.; Dale, Cheyenne, Wy.; Mrs. Allie Buck, Chicago; Delmar, Schiller park; Mrs. Alvin Finke, Wooddale; Mrs. Catherine Wright, Decatur; Steve, Roselle, and Harold of Wooddale.

Arlington Heights Herald

Arlington Heights, Illinois

15 March 1946, Fri • Page 6