Military Figure. Seaman Second Class, United States Navy (Naval Reserve), World War II. He graduated from Bloomfield High School in June 1945 and entered service soon after. He began his training at the Naval Air Technical Training in Tennessee and then graduated from Gunnery School at the Naval Air Gunnery School located in NAS Miami. He then transferred for Operational Training at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, where he began intensive training in the TBM/TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. He was the radioman on the TBM Avenger "FT-3" [TBM-1C - BuNo 45714], that was part of the infamous Flight 19 squadron, that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle during a routine 5-ship overwater navigation training mission out of NAS Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Military Figure. Seaman Second Class, United States Navy (Naval Reserve), World War II. He graduated from Bloomfield High School in June 1945 and entered service soon after. He began his training at the Naval Air Technical Training in Tennessee and then graduated from Gunnery School at the Naval Air Gunnery School located in NAS Miami. He then transferred for Operational Training at Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, where he began intensive training in the TBM/TBF Avenger torpedo bombers. He was the radioman on the TBM Avenger "FT-3" [TBM-1C - BuNo 45714], that was part of the infamous Flight 19 squadron, that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle during a routine 5-ship overwater navigation training mission out of NAS Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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