1942 F4F Navy Ferry Flight: a Virtual Cemetery - Find a Grave

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1942 F4F Navy Ferry Flight

On 13 Feb. 1942, four new Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters were on the last leg of a cross-country ferry flight from the factory in New York to the Naval Air Station, San Diego when the flight ran head-on into a severe winter storm. Three of the aircraft crashed, with one making a forced landing on a road near Ramona, in eastern San Diego County. The following day, a navy two-seat SNJ aircraft, searching for the three missing aircraft, crashed in the rugged San Rosa Mountains of San Diego County, killing both aboard. Only Ensign C.D. Davy, USNR, survived the ferry flight. See for more details: http://www.aircraftwrecks.com/pages/f4f-3a.htm

6 memorials

ENS Julian Locke D'Este Jr. Veteran Flowers have been left.

16 May 1919 – 13 Feb 1942

North Sandwich, Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA

Plot info: Row S: Grave 174

Charles D Davy Flowers have been left.

26 Nov 1918 – 5 Feb 1989

Bay Pines, Pinellas County, Florida, USA

Plot info: Sec 52 Row 1 Site 68

Samuel Kime Flowers have been left.

13 Feb 1921 – 13 Feb 1942

Packwood, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA

William W. Page Flowers have been left.

7 Oct 1916 – 14 Feb 1942

Ontario, San Bernardino County, California, USA

Plot info: Section N

LTJG Carl William Peterson Veteran Flowers have been left.

1 May 1916 – 13 Feb 1942

Belmont, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Plot info: Section 1 Plot Vet I Grave 15

ENS Louis Massie Winn Jr. Veteran Flowers have been left.

4 Feb 1916 – 14 Feb 1942

San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA

Plot info: O S, 139

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