Margaret Bartholomew

Margaret Bartholomew (October 8, 1903 – October 18, 1943) was the first, and only female, Civil Air Patrol member to die in service during World War II.[1]

Margaret Bartholomew
LT Margaret Bartholomew
BornOctober 8, 1903
DiedOctober 18, 1943(1943-10-18) (aged 40)
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Buried
Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH
AllegianceUnited States United States of America
Service/branchCivil Air Patrol
Rank Lieutenant Civil Air Patrol

Biography

Lieuteant Margaret Bartholomew was the 154th charter member of the Ohio Wing of Civil Air Patrol, as well as being the Flight Leader of Flight C from Squadron 5111-1. Squadron 5111-1 was the original Cincinnati Squadron, and was based at Lunken Airport. Flight C was an all-female flight, and was composed of 50 pilots.

Bartholomew was returning to Cincinnati on October 18, 1943, from a courier mission out of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, when a sudden snowstorm plunged visibility to zero. She flew lower as she tried to find a safe place to land, but visibility was so poor that she crashed into a hill 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, approximately in Indiana, Pennsylvania.[2]

Burial

Bartholomew is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio in Section 124, Lot 170.[3]

References
  1. National Museum of the Civil Air Patrol
  2. Dunkman, Elizabeth. Lone CAP WWII Female Casualty Remembered Archived January 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. Our Congressional Gold Meadal Journey, accessed January 5, 2017
  3. "Spring Grove Cemetery Burial Record" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 7, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
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