Wilmeth Sidat-Singh

by Charles Henry Alston

Lieutenant Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
Fighter Pilot — Athlete

One of the most brilliant all round athletes ever to wear the orange of Syracuse, Singh was hailed by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice as “The Greatest Forward passer of the Decade”
 —He even wrote a poem about him!

Singh was serving on the Washington D.C. Police Force when he heard the call of his country.
 He won his wings in March 1943.

On May 9, Lieut. Singh's plane crashed into lake Huron. His body was found June 27— Almost two months later.........

He only had a chance to warm up for his biggest game.— But his courageous spirit will fight on, in the hearts of his team mates, –pitching bullets, instead of bullet passes,– until the final victory is won.

Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, Fighter Pilot — Athlete, by Charles Henry Alston, National Archives Identifier: 535676, Local Identifier: 208-COM-193 - Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. News Bureau. 6/13/1942-9/15/1945.