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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
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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
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