novelist Harry Turtledove makes Forrest III a significant character in the Southern Victory series, and a minor character in the standalone novel Joe Steele. The Southern Victory version (an officer of a still-extant Confederacy, which has become analogous to Nazi Germany), leads a July 20-style coup attempt against Hitleresque Confederate President Jake Featherston. See also Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., another great-grandson of a notable Confederate general who was a high-ranking USAAF pilot killed in action in the ETO in World War II References 1905 births 1940s missing person cases 1943 deaths Aerial disappearances of military personnel in action Aviators killed by being shot down Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Formerly missing people Forrest family Missing in action of World War II Missing person cases in Germany People from Memphis, Tennessee People lost at sea People who died at sea Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) United States Army Air Forces generals United States Army Air Forces generals of World War II United States Army Air Forces personnel killed in World War II United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II United States Military Academy alumni United States Army officers