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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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                                                          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
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                                                          and salute to
                                                          Greg
                                                          Mastriforte,
                                                          who did the
                                                          research and
                                                          created the
                                                          website.
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