USN
USS Saratoga
VB-3
Nicolas Duprey 2001
Pilot Lt(jg) Liston Rhodes Comer, 99883 (KIA)
Gunner ARM3/c James Owen Walker, 6641856 (KIA)
Missing December 5, 1942
Aircraft History
Fuselage number 918.
Wartime History
Took off on a training mission and crashed on Noumea. Crashed into Mount Mou on New Calidonia during a training mission.
Wreckage
Wreck site includes parts of the wings, and parts of fuselage.
Nicholas Duprey adds:
"One years ago I found a identification
plate with the name of James Owen Walker, we have send a request at
the Military Personnal Record, and they send us the informations we
have already send to you. After we have send a request at the naval
Historical center, and we have received the report yesterday: the pilot
was Liston Rhodes Comer, the plane was a SBD-3, and you was right, it
crashed during a training mission, the cause of the crash is unknown,
it was a plane of the USS Saratoga. We have also send a request at Veterant
Affairs Center to try to find the next of kind of this guy, but we have
to wait."
References
Thanks to Ted Darcy for additional information
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