Block Island Sound – April 1, 1944
On the night of June 24, 1944, the body of navy Lieutenant Edward Roy Sladek, 22, was found by the Coast Guard at Shagwong Point, in the town of Montauk, (Long Island) New York. He had been missing since April 1st, when the aircraft he was aboard went down in the water off Block Island, R.I.
According to one news report, Sladek was one of “five or six” men aboard that aircraft when it crashed. The unidentified plane was out of Quonset Point Naval Air Station in R.I.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139707969/edward-roy-sladek
Sources:
The East Hampton Star, “Navy Flyer Found”, June 29, 1944, Pg.4
Rhode Island Department Of Health death certificate