Ensign M. W. Bird, USNR, was designated Naval Aviator #7667 in 1941. Entered the service via the pre-war Aviation Cadet (AVCAD) program.
Was one of ten servicemen to perish when his PBY patrol plane, launched from NAS Pensacola, Fla., failed to return from a flight combined as a ASW and training mission over the Gulf of Mexico.
Ensign Bird was the son of Wellignton (1863 - ?) and Marion Park (McGill) Bird (1887 - 1979) as well as the older brother of Wallace.
Malcolm was a 1941 graduate of Middlebury College where he was a brother of the Vermont Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He married the former Miss Marjorie Jean Tomlinson (a Pi Beta Phi) on December 20, 1941 in Crestview, FL.
Was one of ten servicemen to perish when his PBY patrol plane, launched from NAS Pensacola, Fla., failed to return from a flight combined as a ASW and training mission over the Gulf of Mexico.
Ensign Bird was the son of Wellignton (1863 - ?) and Marion Park (McGill) Bird (1887 - 1979) as well as the older brother of Wallace.
Malcolm was a 1941 graduate of Middlebury College where he was a brother of the Vermont Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He married the former Miss Marjorie Jean Tomlinson (a Pi Beta Phi) on December 20, 1941 in Crestview, FL.
Ensign M. W. Bird, USNR, was designated Naval Aviator #7667 in 1941. Entered the service via the pre-war Aviation Cadet (AVCAD) program.
Was one of ten servicemen to perish when his PBY patrol plane, launched from NAS Pensacola, Fla., failed to return from a flight combined as a ASW and training mission over the Gulf of Mexico.
Ensign Bird was the son of Wellignton (1863 - ?) and Marion Park (McGill) Bird (1887 - 1979) as well as the older brother of Wallace.
Malcolm was a 1941 graduate of Middlebury College where he was a brother of the Vermont Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He married the former Miss Marjorie Jean Tomlinson (a Pi Beta Phi) on December 20, 1941 in Crestview, FL.
Was one of ten servicemen to perish when his PBY patrol plane, launched from NAS Pensacola, Fla., failed to return from a flight combined as a ASW and training mission over the Gulf of Mexico.
Ensign Bird was the son of Wellignton (1863 - ?) and Marion Park (McGill) Bird (1887 - 1979) as well as the older brother of Wallace.
Malcolm was a 1941 graduate of Middlebury College where he was a brother of the Vermont Beta chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He married the former Miss Marjorie Jean Tomlinson (a Pi Beta Phi) on December 20, 1941 in Crestview, FL.
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