Lieutenant Lucian N. Youngblood

When Lucian Nevelon Youngblood was born on 26 May 1918, in Pampa, Gray, Texas his father, Clarence Curtis Youngblood, was 37 and his mother, Annah R. Cowell, was 26.  Lucian was the youngest of three.  He had one older brother, Curtis and one older sister, Pearl. 

He married L'Gean Katherine Manning in October 1941. The couple had no children.

They lived in Waco, McLennan, Texas for about 5 years then later at Bexar, Texas in 1940. 

His final assignment was with the 2150th Rescue Unit at Hamilton AFB, California, from August 1948 until he was killed in the crash of a C-47 Dakota on 28 February 1949. Lucian Youngblood was buried at the Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

Lucian died in a plane crash in the Serranias Delburro mountains in Mexico. By then he was only 30 years old.

Some sources telling me his wife remarried with Lemuel Loggans Council on 18 September 1959, in Harris, Texas. (is this correct?) She died in 2009.

But in some sources we read that she attended all Doolittle reunions after the death of Lucian to honor Lucian and his comrades. She is also buried in Houston, Texas - Forest Park Cemetery. 

The following is an excerpt from an unfinished manuscript by Youngblood: “On April 2, 1942, the Doolittle Group loaded planes on the Carrier Hornet and moved out under the Golden Gate Bridge into the Pacific. On April 18 all personnel were told to stand by their airplanes and told to prepare to take-off. We knew out mission was practically impossible as we had enough gas for 1900 miles and had to make 3200.

Doolittle was the first to take off. We were airborne at 0830. As we arrived at Tokyo we entered the Bay and were immediately jumped by fighters. We pulled up, salvoed our bombs over the mainland and ran like hell. Never did know what we hit as we were too busy dealing with the Jap fighters. Our plane headed for China and after some hours our fuel supply was exhausted and the entire crew was instructed to bail out. I ended up on a mountain top, alone. It was April 19, 1942.

After walking off the mountain and spending six more days traversing the Chinese countryside, I arrived in Chu Chien China. Here I met up with others in our group who had survived.” 

Below you see a picture of the first Doolittle reunion held in Miami 1947. Lucian attended that reunion. On the picture below Lucian is marked with a green dot.

Lucian Youngblood was inducted in the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame (Lone Star Flight Museum) on 9 November 2001.

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