At 20:37 hours, two U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-2 Catalinas, Bu№ 0462 of VP-13 and Bu№ 0463 of VP-11 collided in darkness and rainy conditions, 70 miles west of Point Loma, San Diego, California, killing three officers and 8 enlisted men. The survivors were rescued by the battleship U.S.S. Tennessee.
The aircraft departed Naval Air Station North Island as part of a formation and aerial combat training flight when the two planes collided over the Pacific Ocean west of San Clemente Island.
The personnel killed and missing were:
LT Elmer G Cooper, Monticello, AR
LT Carlton B Hutchins, Albany Co., NY
RM1 Jesse H Hester (recovered), La Grange, GA
ACMM John Fitzmaurice, El Cajon, CA
AMM1 George G Griffin, Arlington, VA
AVC Erwin J Koch, Toledo, OH
AMM2 Paul Landgrebe, Stillwell, IN
AMM1 John H Niedzweicki, Milwaukee, WI
RM1 Julian J Rawls, Dublin, GA
AMM2 Joseph E Walton, Stamford, TX
ACMM Marion W Woodruff, San Diego, CA
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Son of O.H.P. Rawls and Julia I. Rawls
Brother of Otis Bryant "Smokey" Rawls
At 20:37 hours, two U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-2 Catalinas, Bu№ 0462 of VP-13 and Bu№ 0463 of VP-11 collided in darkness and rainy conditions, 70 miles west of Point Loma, San Diego, California, killing three officers and 8 enlisted men. The survivors were rescued by the battleship U.S.S. Tennessee.
The aircraft departed Naval Air Station North Island as part of a formation and aerial combat training flight when the two planes collided over the Pacific Ocean west of San Clemente Island.
The personnel killed and missing were:
LT Elmer G Cooper, Monticello, AR
LT Carlton B Hutchins, Albany Co., NY
RM1 Jesse H Hester (recovered), La Grange, GA
ACMM John Fitzmaurice, El Cajon, CA
AMM1 George G Griffin, Arlington, VA
AVC Erwin J Koch, Toledo, OH
AMM2 Paul Landgrebe, Stillwell, IN
AMM1 John H Niedzweicki, Milwaukee, WI
RM1 Julian J Rawls, Dublin, GA
AMM2 Joseph E Walton, Stamford, TX
ACMM Marion W Woodruff, San Diego, CA
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Son of O.H.P. Rawls and Julia I. Rawls
Brother of Otis Bryant "Smokey" Rawls
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