Gordon Clevington Brooks
Lieutenant, Army
Hometown: Roanoke City, VA
Captain Brooks served as a pilot with the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, 443rd Troop Carrier Group in the China-Burma-India.
Before the war, Gordon graduated from Jefferson High School and he was employed by American Viscose Corporation, Roanoke, Virginia.
Captain Brooks was flying a C47A that crashed 20 miles southwest of Mitu, Burma on September 23, 1944. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is buried in Sherwood Burial Park, Roanoke, Virginia.
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