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