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Re: USS Wasp - Vindicator lost 27/3/42
i'm referring to a transcription from a public newspaper! i'm sure some one can ID the correct aircraft in due course.
Just trying to be helpful!
Incident would have been on December 4th, 1941
Dec 7th 1941:
Leap Saves Cadet As Trainer Burns
MIAMI, Fla. Dec 6 (INS)
"I sure was lucky", Edwin S Petway, 23, aviation cadet at Nashville, Tenn. said today as he told of his parachute leap at 7000 feet from his flaming Grumman Seahawk trainer over Miami.
Petway jumped Thursday night when the plane burst into flames. He landed safely in a house yard. The ship crashed in an open field three blocks away, snapping light wires and throwing that section Miami into darkness.
A crowd of souvenir hunters had the plane stripped before it cooled. One man even was lugging off the plane's machine gun when police intercepted him.
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