Lt. Tripp entered the USNA from Michigan and was attending the USNA at time of enlistment. Lt. Tripp was attached to Fighting Squadron NINETEEN, based aboard the USS LEXINGTON (CV-16). At 0555 on 12 Oct 1944 he took of from the USS Lexington in a F6F-5 airplane, Bureau number 58565 with LCDR Franklin E. Cook, Jr., USN as pilot. The purpose of the flight, of sixteen airplanes, was a fighter sweep mission over Formosa airfields. Between Kagi and Taichu, the planes were intercepted by enemy planes, and after the ensuing battle they went on to the Taichu airfield making strafing runs on the enemy. LCDR Cook's plane was last seen diving steeply on the Taichu Airfield at some 400 knots and a few seconds latera a plane, believed to be his , was seen to crash on the field, bursting into flames.
Lt. Tripp entered the USNA from Michigan and was attending the USNA at time of enlistment. Lt. Tripp was attached to Fighting Squadron NINETEEN, based aboard the USS LEXINGTON (CV-16). At 0555 on 12 Oct 1944 he took of from the USS Lexington in a F6F-5 airplane, Bureau number 58565 with LCDR Franklin E. Cook, Jr., USN as pilot. The purpose of the flight, of sixteen airplanes, was a fighter sweep mission over Formosa airfields. Between Kagi and Taichu, the planes were intercepted by enemy planes, and after the ensuing battle they went on to the Taichu airfield making strafing runs on the enemy. LCDR Cook's plane was last seen diving steeply on the Taichu Airfield at some 400 knots and a few seconds latera a plane, believed to be his , was seen to crash on the field, bursting into flames.
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