Alwayne Marcellus Dunlap (1920 - 1944)

Born 22 Feb 1920 in District of Columbia, United States

Ancestors

Died 21 Feb 1944 at age 23 in Nettuno, Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Biography

Alwayne Dunlap is Notable.

Alwayne Dunlap is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Army Air Force 99th Fighter Squadron 1943-1944
Tuskegee Airman flying Ace

Alwayne Dunlap was awarded the Purple Heart.

2 Lt Alwayne Dunlap was Killed in Action during World War II.

Alwayne Dunlap was born in 1920 in Washington, D.C. to Kansans Balis Allen Dunlap (1890-1971) and Bessie Lee (1890-1934).^[1] His known siblings were:

• Lee A Dunlap (1914–2012)
• Beula R Dunlap (1916–1932)
• Balis Allen Dunlap (1917–1983)
• Lynn R Dunlap (1922–1991)

His father was an office clerk for the U.S. government. Alwayne was about fourteen when his mother died in 1934; he graduated from Randall Junior High School that same year.^[2] His father remarried in 1935,^[3] but that marriage was short-lived and the couple separated by 1940.^[4] In 1937, he graduated from Armstrong High School.^[5] Alwayne continued to live at home with his father while attending the Miner Teachers' College. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree, graduating in June of 1941.^[6] Then Pearl Harbor was attacked in December of 1941.

In February of 1942, he enlisted in the army;^[7] he served at Fort George Meade, Fort Bragg and Camp Livingston before enrolling in the Tuskegee Army Air Field flying school. He graduated from the flying school in March of 1943, and reported to the Army Air Base at Selfridge Field in Michigan^[8] prior to being deployed to North Africa with the 99th Fighter Squadron, 322nd Fighter Group in April. He flew his first combat mission on June 2 of that same year.

On 21 Feb, 1944, Alwayne was killed when, returning from a mission in defense of the Anzio beachhead, he overshot a landing strip on Anzio Beach in Italy and crashed. He is buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Lazio, Italy.^[9][10]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMK5-2HL : accessed 28 July 2020), Alwyn M Dunlap in household of Balis A Dunlap, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 125, sheet 8A, line 12, family 110, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 295; FHL microfilm 2,340,030.
2. ↑ Washington Evening Star, (Washington D.C., 20 June 1934) p. 13.
3. ↑ "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V642-197 : 9 March 2021), Balis Allen Dunlap and Ada Elizabeth Lewis, 16 Feb 1935; citing p. 80, Records Office, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 2,293,332.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7S8-2ZZ : 6 March 2020), Alwine Dunlap in household of Bailis Dunlap, Tract 48, District of Columbia, Police Precinct 2, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-41, sheet 13B, line 49, family 237, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 554.
5. ↑ Washington Evening Star, (Washington D.C., 22 June 1937) p. 29.
6. ↑ Washington Evening Star, (Washington D.C., 20 June 1941) p. 41.
7. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8R1-351 : 5 December 2014), Alwayne M Dunlap, enlisted 18 Feb 1942, Ft George G Meade, Maryland, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
8. ↑ Washington Evening Star, (Washington D.C., 18 May 1943) p. 29.
9. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #56308441
   Memorial page for 2LT Alwayne M Dunlap (20 Feb 1920-21 Feb 1944), citing Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial, Nettuno, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy (Plot D, Row 14, Grave 7); Maintained by Grave Maven (contributor 47490235).
10. ↑ "Alwayne M. Dunlap,"American Battle Monuments Commission, abmc.gov website.

See also:

• https://cafriseabove.org/alwayne-m-dunlap/
• https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=25617
• https://www.tuskegee.edu/support-tu/tuskegee-airmen#:~:text=Anyone%20%2D%2D%20man%20or%20woman,Original%20Tuskegee%20Airman%20(DOTA).