Edwin Alan Yelton
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 2 June 1942, page 3
Lieut. Alan Yelton, son of Mr. and Mrs. E F Yelton, Ridgeway avenue, Ft Thomas, recently received his commission in the Army Air Corps. He attended Highlands High School and Eastern State Teachers College. He is stationed at Langley Field, Va.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 22 September 1943, page 1
Lieut. Alan Yelton, 23 year old navigator of a Flying Fortress, has been killed in action over Europe, according to word received from the War Department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F Yelton, Ft Thomas. Lieut. Yelton enlisted a short time after being graduated from Eastern State Teachers College, Richmond in June 1941. He received his wings from the School of Navigation, Turner Field, Albany Ga.
He was a graduate of Highlands High School, where he participated in track activities and played in the band. He has two brothers, Pvt. Wilbur E Yelton, who is stationed with the Air Force in the Southwest Pacific and Pfc. Harold Yelton, a member of the Air Force Orchestra at Ft Worth Tex.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 24 January 1944, page 1
Lieut. Alan Yelton was killed recently while on a mission over Germany, was one of the first two French horn players in the Hiland Band when it was organized in 1929, Prof. James R McKenna, director, recalled Monday.
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Ft Thomas Living, 1944
Professor James B McKenna of the faculty of Highlands High School and Director of the Hiland Band, observed that Captain Ross and the late Lieut. Alan Yelton wre his first two French Horn players when the band was organized in 1929.
Highlands High School;
Attended Eastern Kentucky University; Enlisted on 13 August 1941 in Fort Thomas,
Ky; 2nd Lt 15067484 U. S. Army Air Force - Navigator 19th Anti-Submarine
Squadron, 479th Anti-Submarine Group - B-24 Liberator MACR 363 - Aircraft serial
number is listed as 42-63791
This operation was an anti-submarine patrol over the North Sea off the
Holland/Belgium coast by a B-24 dispatched by 479th Anti-Submarine Group/19th
Anti-Submarine Squadron. The aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and
ditched into the North Sea. 4 KIA - 6 RTD (rescued by ASR). Those rescued spent
5 days adrift in a raft.