[AlaskaRC] Burial At See In WWII Avenger...

[Steven Lingle]

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>> Loyce Edward Deen, an Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class, USNR, was a gunner on a TBM Avenger. Sixty eight years ago today, on November 5, 1944, Deen's squadron participated in a raid on Manila where his plane was hit multiple times by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a Japanese cruiser. Deen was killed. The Avenger's pilot, Lt Robert Cosgrove, managed to return to his carrier, the USS Essex.
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>> Both Deen and the plane had been shot up so badly that it was decided to leave him in it. It is the only time in U.S. Navy                                                           history (and probably U.S. military history) that an aviator was buried in his aircraft after being killed in action.
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>> http://loyceedeen.webstarts. com/uploads/GoingHome.mp4 <http://loyceedeen.webstarts.com/uploads/GoingHome.mp4>
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>> loyceedeen <http://www.loyceedeen.org/>
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>> My compliments and salute to Greg Mastriforte, who did the research and created the website. Download by right clicking on it...   
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