WWII Service - USS Isherwood (DD 520)
Executive Officer of Fighter Squadron (VF) 10A
Battle Creek Inquirer 20 Nov 1947:
Two navy pilots, one a nephew of W.H. Marshall of 92 East Avenue North and grandson of Mrs. Dora Marshall of Bellevue were killed off Block Island R.I. Tuesday in a mid-air collision of their planes.
The victim with relatives here was Lieut-Comm. Marshall J. Lyttle, 26, son of Stephen J. and Lena (Marshall) Lyttle of 2336 Mershon Street, Saginaw. His father is the principal of the Saginaw Senior High School. Lieut.-Comm. Minuard F. Jennings, 32 of Westerly R.I. was the other pilot killed.
According to the Associated Press report the two men were leading flights of fighter planes from the naval air station at Charlestown, Mass. when their craft collided and disintegrated over the sea. Commander Lyttle was attached to a squadron of fighter aircraft based on the carrier Philippine Sea. He was executive officer and Commander Jennings was commanding offer of the flight.
Commander Lyttle was born March 12, 1921, in Shelby, where his father was then a teacher, and graduated from Saginaw High School. He won an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated three weeks after Pearl Harbor. For 30 months he was in the Pacific as an engineering officer aboard destroyers. He won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. in 1943. He had visited relatives in Battle Creek on a number of occasions.
WWII Service - USS Isherwood (DD 520)
Executive Officer of Fighter Squadron (VF) 10A
Battle Creek Inquirer 20 Nov 1947:
Two navy pilots, one a nephew of W.H. Marshall of 92 East Avenue North and grandson of Mrs. Dora Marshall of Bellevue were killed off Block Island R.I. Tuesday in a mid-air collision of their planes.
The victim with relatives here was Lieut-Comm. Marshall J. Lyttle, 26, son of Stephen J. and Lena (Marshall) Lyttle of 2336 Mershon Street, Saginaw. His father is the principal of the Saginaw Senior High School. Lieut.-Comm. Minuard F. Jennings, 32 of Westerly R.I. was the other pilot killed.
According to the Associated Press report the two men were leading flights of fighter planes from the naval air station at Charlestown, Mass. when their craft collided and disintegrated over the sea. Commander Lyttle was attached to a squadron of fighter aircraft based on the carrier Philippine Sea. He was executive officer and Commander Jennings was commanding offer of the flight.
Commander Lyttle was born March 12, 1921, in Shelby, where his father was then a teacher, and graduated from Saginaw High School. He won an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated three weeks after Pearl Harbor. For 30 months he was in the Pacific as an engineering officer aboard destroyers. He won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. in 1943. He had visited relatives in Battle Creek on a number of occasions.
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