Burial at sea

[survivalshop]

I got sent this from a fellow Squid .

Loyce Edward Deen, an Aviation Machinist Mate 2nd Class, USNR, was a gunner
on a TBM Avenger.

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*.

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.

<http://loyceedeen.webstarts.com/uploads/GoingHome.mp4>

 

[sketch]

Rip Loyce E. Deen

 sad and beautiful! 

[shepp]

Wow thank you for sharing that SS