Walker Tedford
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Lieutenant Walker Tedford: Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry and the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Personal History
Tedford was born on May 2, 1919, in Wattensaw, AR, to Luther E. and Golden J. Tedford. He had three siblings: Lee, Reece, and Ernestine Tedford. He lived both in Alaska and South Carolina for some time before attending Arkansas State Teachers College (known as the University of Central Arkansas today) for one year. He was never married and had no children.
While stationed in Greenville, South Carolina Tedford was co-piloting a B-25C bomber that crashed. He was killed and his body was returned to Arkansas where he is buried in the Salem Cemetery in Lonoke, AR.
