Atlantic Ocean – September 4, 1944
On September 4, 1944, Ensign Charles R. Davis was lost on a night training mission over the Atlantic Ocean while piloting an F6F-5N Hellcat, (Bu. No. 70671). He was assigned to Night Fighter Squadron 106, aka, VF(n) – 106. According to one of the other pilots on the flight who witnessed the event, Davis went into an inverted spin while at 5,000 feet, but was never able to pull out of it and hit the water.
Ensign Davis had been married only three weeks earlier on August 16.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262875323/charles-r-davis
Sources:
Information supplied by Larry Webster, aviation historian, Charlestown, R. I.
Providence Journal, “Missing Navy Pilot Wed Only Three Weeks”, September 5, 1944.