Major William Gart

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Major William Gart

Background

William "Bill" "Willie" Gart is a major and an experimental jet pilot in the United States Air Force.

During the events of The Twilight Zone: Season 1 Episode 11 And When the Sky Was Opened played by Jim Hutton

After returning from a flight into space on the X-20, Colonel Clegg Forbes goes into Room 15 and asks Gart how he is doing. Gart notices Forbes is acting weird and Forbes tells him that something has happened. Forbes asks Gart some questions like when he left the hospital and with who. Gart tells him that he didn't leave with anyone Forbes has Gart read the headline from the paper which lists two pilots as part of the X-20 mission. Forbes has Gart go over the details of what he remembers again and then tells him that there were three pilots, Forbes, Gart and Colonel Ed Harrington. Gart tells Forbes that he doesn't know anyone named Harrington and there were only two pilots. Forbes tells Gart what he remembers from the day before.

Forbes ends his story to Gart, but Gart tells him he still doesn't remember Harrington. Forbes tells Gart he knows Harrington isn't an illusion and runs out of the hospital room screaming. Gart runs after him and tells the Nurse that someone needs to help Forbes. She tells him that she doesn't know anyone named Forbes and Gart picks up the paper and sees the headline now only list one pilot. He then disappears.