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Re: USN/USMC losses - Tinian - 30 July 1944
I think it is highly likely. The War Diary of VMO-4 on July 30 says:
"Lt. J. A. Cameron and observer. Lt. W. C. Jones failed to return from an early morning flight. There airplane was later sighted on enemy land half-burnt. On the second of August, marines reached the airplane. They were buried in the marine cemetery, Tinian."
The war diary of the USS Tennessee states that on July 30 at 07:21 they observed the collision of their observation plane with a shore based artillery spotting plane. Both planes crashed and burned in enemy territory.
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