KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Organizers of a tribute to a Knoxville pilot may live almost four thousand miles away, but they have come to know Herman C. Carey simply as “Jack.”
“His family name—and he was 29 years of age…just a young lad,” said Millar Leon, who was one of the organizers with the Howwood Community Council in Renfrewshire, Scotland, who upgraded a memorial to Knoxville native first established in 2003. It needed an upgrade, and during the research, Mr. Leon and others learned other details about the pilot who crashed into a stand of trees in bad weather a few days after Christmas in 1943.
“Apparently, he had just written and posted a letter to his wife the day before, which again, quite poignant in its way as well, and he was killed,” said Mr. Leon…