Chal Daniel was highly gifted in both academics and athletics. He was an honor student in junior and senior high school, and won a high school championship with the Lobo football team (Longview, Texas) in 1937. He was an extremely talented football player, having played in position as Right Guard for the University of Texas Longhorns.
He was chosen as an All-American during the 1941-42 season and starred in the Shriners' annual All-Star charity game for the West All-Stars.
Upon also being drafted to play for the Chicago Bears, his enlistment in the US Army Air Corps interrupted his football career in early 1942.
His primary flight school training was at Randolph Field, and he continued to basic flight school at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and then to advanced flight training at Kelly
Field, San Antonio, Texas, where he was awarded his pilot's wings and commision as a
Lieutenant August 1942.
He was killed while piloting a Vultee BT Valiant aircraft, BT-13A #41-22766, along with Co-Pilot, 2nd Lt Calvin E Giffin, Jr (#696095), when the ship disappeared on a
flight leaving from Greenville. After a five-day aerial search, the plane was located ten miles north-northwest of New Braunfels, Texas.
Chal Daniel was highly gifted in both academics and athletics. He was an honor student in junior and senior high school, and won a high school championship with the Lobo football team (Longview, Texas) in 1937. He was an extremely talented football player, having played in position as Right Guard for the University of Texas Longhorns.
He was chosen as an All-American during the 1941-42 season and starred in the Shriners' annual All-Star charity game for the West All-Stars.
Upon also being drafted to play for the Chicago Bears, his enlistment in the US Army Air Corps interrupted his football career in early 1942.
His primary flight school training was at Randolph Field, and he continued to basic flight school at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and then to advanced flight training at Kelly
Field, San Antonio, Texas, where he was awarded his pilot's wings and commision as a
Lieutenant August 1942.
He was killed while piloting a Vultee BT Valiant aircraft, BT-13A #41-22766, along with Co-Pilot, 2nd Lt Calvin E Giffin, Jr (#696095), when the ship disappeared on a
flight leaving from Greenville. After a five-day aerial search, the plane was located ten miles north-northwest of New Braunfels, Texas.
