United States Naval Officer. He was killed in a plane accident in Iraq while served as a United States Naval observer attached to the Royal Air Force. He is buried in the North Africa American (ABMC) Cemetery and Memorial in Tunis, Tunisia, in Plot G, Row 16, Grave 8.
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Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1941 -
NAVAL OBSERVER DIES IN RAF CRASH OVER IRAQ DESERT,
Washington, July 8(AP) - The Navy Department reported Tuesday that Lieut. Commander George W. Grove, and observer with the Royal Air Force in Iraq, was killed last month in an airplane crash.
Grove previously had been reported missing since June 13 on a Royal Air Force flight in Iraq.
The department said that information from the American Minister at Baghdad was that the body had been found in a wrecked plane on the desert and apparently all aboard the plane had been killed instantly. There was no information as to the cause of the crash.
The American Minister advised that funeral services for Commander Grove were held at Basrah on July 4.
The naval officer is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Grove of Cornwall, Connecticut.
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Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1941 -
NAVAL OBSERVER DIES IN RAF CRASH OVER IRAQ DESERT,
Washington, July 8(AP) - The Navy Department reported Tuesday that Lieut. Commander George W. Grove, and observer with the Royal Air Force in Iraq, was killed last month in an airplane crash.
Grove previously had been reported missing since June 13 on a Royal Air Force flight in Iraq.
The department said that information from the American Minister at Baghdad was that the body had been found in a wrecked plane on the desert and apparently all aboard the plane had been killed instantly. There was no information as to the cause of the crash.
The American Minister advised that funeral services for Commander Grove were held at Basrah on July 4.
The naval officer is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Grove of Cornwall, Connecticut.
United States Naval Officer. He was killed in a plane accident in Iraq while served as a United States Naval observer attached to the Royal Air Force. He is buried in the North Africa American (ABMC) Cemetery and Memorial in Tunis, Tunisia, in Plot G, Row 16, Grave 8.
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Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1941 -
NAVAL OBSERVER DIES IN RAF CRASH OVER IRAQ DESERT,
Washington, July 8(AP) - The Navy Department reported Tuesday that Lieut. Commander George W. Grove, and observer with the Royal Air Force in Iraq, was killed last month in an airplane crash.
Grove previously had been reported missing since June 13 on a Royal Air Force flight in Iraq.
The department said that information from the American Minister at Baghdad was that the body had been found in a wrecked plane on the desert and apparently all aboard the plane had been killed instantly. There was no information as to the cause of the crash.
The American Minister advised that funeral services for Commander Grove were held at Basrah on July 4.
The naval officer is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Grove of Cornwall, Connecticut.
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Dallas Morning News, July 9, 1941 -
NAVAL OBSERVER DIES IN RAF CRASH OVER IRAQ DESERT,
Washington, July 8(AP) - The Navy Department reported Tuesday that Lieut. Commander George W. Grove, and observer with the Royal Air Force in Iraq, was killed last month in an airplane crash.
Grove previously had been reported missing since June 13 on a Royal Air Force flight in Iraq.
The department said that information from the American Minister at Baghdad was that the body had been found in a wrecked plane on the desert and apparently all aboard the plane had been killed instantly. There was no information as to the cause of the crash.
The American Minister advised that funeral services for Commander Grove were held at Basrah on July 4.
The naval officer is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Grove of Cornwall, Connecticut.
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