Quonset Point, R. I. – November 1, 1944

Quonset Point Naval Air Station – November 1, 1944

     On November 11, 1944, AMM/3c Robert Horvath, 19, of Elwood City, Pennsylvania, was killed when he was struck by a spinning aircraft propeller of a plane that had just landed.  He was part of the landing crew.  He’d joined the navy on his 17th birthday, September 16, 1942.   

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/271598157/robert-charles-horvath

     Sources:

     North Kingstown, Rhode Island, Death Records, page 83, entry #332. 

     www.findagrave.com

 

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