• March 13, 1919 – July 4, 1944
• Lincoln County, Washington
• Engineering 1939 – 1941
• Was student when called up, but might have served previously from 1935 to 1938 but unsure
• Married fellow UT Student and Tennessee Native Ada Garland in 1944 before he was deployed to Europe
• 1st LT Army Air Corps, Bombadier, originally 2nd LT
• 801st Bomb Group, 36th Bomb Sq. in 8th Air Force Special Duty Operations “Carpetbaggers”
• Flew covert missions delivering supplies to the OSS in a B-24D Liberator
• Flew out of Harrington Air Base, Harrington, Northamptonshire, England
• Killed in Orleans, France on July 4, 1944. He died on 4 July 1944 when his plane was shot down by a German night fighter ME 110 over Tranville, Eure-et-Loir, France.
• Buried initially at Aubrais, France in the Loiret Communal Cemetery, but moved to Olney Cemetery in Pendleton, Oregon

Alfred Caswell Emert (March 13, 1919 – July 4, 1944) was born in Lincoln County, Washington. He attended the University of Tennessee as an engineering student from 1939 to 1941. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and trained as a bombardier on B-24 Liberators. After training, he was commissioned as an 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to the 801st Bomb Group of the 26th Bomber Group. He married Tennessee native and fellow UT student Ada Garland in 1944 before he was deployed to Europe. Lieutenant Emert’s group was assigned to the 8th Air Force and stationed at Harrington Air Base in Northamptonshire, England. The 801st was nicknamed the “Carpetbaggers” and conducted special operations and covert missions delivering supplies to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). When returning from one of these missions on July 4th, 1944, Lieutenant Emert’s B-24 was shot down by a German ME-110 night fighter over Orleans, France near Tranville, Eure-et-Loir. He was posthumously awarded the rank of 1st Lieutenant and is buried at Olney Cemetery in Pendleton, Oregon.

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