Unique Burial At Sea 72 Years Ago - Moving

[Starman]

Burial At Sea 72 years ago

Here's footage you'll see only once in a lifetime.
Just imagine being there to witness it!

Tough times, tough people!

Here's a sea burial you may not have read about :

Loyce Edward Deen, an Aviation Machinist Mate
2nd Class, USNR, was a gunner on a TBM Avenger.

On November 5, 1944, Deen's squadron participated in a raid on Manila where his plane was hit multiple times by anti-aircraft fire while attacking a Japanese cruiser. Deen was killed. The Avenger's pilot, Lt.; Robert Cosgrove,managed to return to his carrier, the USS Essex. Both Deen and the plane had been shotup so badly that it was decided to leave him in the plane.

It is the only time in U.S. Navy history (and probably U.S. military history) that an aviator was buried in his aircraft after being killed in action.




http://loyceedeen.webstarts.com/uploads/GoingHome.mp4

[Hoosier8]

The video would not play for me but an interesting point in history was when Bush Senior was shot down just off the coast of a Japanese held Island and was saved by a submarine. A Japanese survivor said that their own military would not have done the same for them. The aviators that were captured by the Japanese on that island we're all butcher. Some had parts eaten.

[DGUtley]

@Starman. Wow. Thank you!!