Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island – July 21, 1943
F4U Corsair
US Navy Photo
On July 21, 1943, Sub Lieutenant Derek Charles Newton Lovely, (20), of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves, was piloting an F4U Corsair, (Bu. No. JT-138), over the Tiverton area when his aircraft developed an unspecified problem forcing him to bail out. The plane crashed into the water off Tiverton in the area of the “old Stone Bridge”. Sub Lieutenant Lovely bailed out successfully, but his parachute failed to open and he was killed.
Hi was buried in Island Cemetery in Newport, R. I. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15037587/derek-charles_newton-lovely
Source:
Quonset Point Crash Log, Providence College Library
