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Quitman Walker attended college .

He joined the Air Corps of the Army of the United States at March Field, California, on 25 April 1942. He graduated from flight training on 14 January 1943 at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. He was posted to North Africa with the 99th Fighter Squadron in April 1943. The squadron flew its first combat mission on 2 June, then moved to Italy on 28 July. Nearly a year later, the 99th Fighter Squadron joined the 332nd Fighter Group at Ramitelli Air Field, where it was stationed for the rest of the war.

Statement from 1st Lt Emile G. Clifton who was flying the same mission: “After leaving the area about twenty miles northeast of Lake Balaton, Hungary at approximately 1415 hours on 19 November 1944, I was climbing southward toward the lake at approximately seven thousand feet. Lt Q.C. Walker was just behind me at approximately six thousand feet. We ran into concentrated flak. I looked behind me just in time to see Lt Walker make a sharp turn to the east. That was the last I saw of him. I made two 360-degree turns and called him several times on the radio with no results.”

In 1995, a hangar at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, was named “The Walker Centre” in his honor.