Air Medal awarded 18 Aug 1945. Captain Charles Benson Anstadt Junior served with the 492nd Bomb Squadron, 10th A.A.F. He was killed along with 65 others on the 6th October 1955 while still actively serving as a Captain in the U.SA.F. It was the worst Air Disaster to date in U.S. history. The following newspaper extract records of the incident:
"York Officer Dies in Plane Disaster - Capt. Charles Anstadt Jnr., 33, pilot with long service record; among 66 victims of Wyoming commercial plane crash. Parents live at 236 South Duke St. Capt. Charles B. Anstadt Jnr., veteran Air Force pilot from York, was one of the 66 persons killed in the nation's worst airline crash Thursday in Wyoming. The 33 year old father of two was the son of Mr & Mrs Charles B. Anstadt, 236 South Duke St. His father left by air from Philadelphia early yesterday for Ogden, Utah, to bring back the captain's wife and two children, Thomas Edward, 8, and Janet Elizabeth, 2. Mrs Anstadt is the former Evelyn Rodan, daughter of Mrs Pauline Rodan, 215 Roosevelt Ave. The captain had been stationed at Hill Air Force base near Ogden and had been lecturing to fighter pilots at air bases in the western part of the country."