Anton S. Aman

Born in Yucca, NDak on August 1, 1926, to Mr. and Mrs. Casper Aman. He graduated from Mandan high school in 1945 and entered AUS Ft Leavenworth, Kansas on Jan 26, 1945. He served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater during WWII as a communications non-commissioned officer and separated at Ft Lewis, Washington on January 15, 1947. He entered the USAF Fargo, NDak on April 1, 1951, and died in service in a T-6 plane crash near Camilla, Ga on April 21, 1952. He was a student officer undergoing flight training in the Air Force at the time of the accident and civilian flying instructor Leonard D. Carter of Ehrhardt, SC also died in the crash. Prior to his death, Lieutenant Aman had been stationed at the Bainbridge air force base in Georgia for five months. His wife lived in Nashville, Tennesse at the time of his death and they had no children. He left behind his widow, parents, three brothers and four sisters. He is buried in the Mandan Union Cemetery, Mandan, North Dakota.