Atlantic Ocean – January 16, 1945

     On the night of January 16, 1945, Ensign William Joseph Monagle, Jr., took off from the Charlestown Naval Auxiliary Air Field in Charlestown, Rhode Island, for a training flight over the Atlantic Ocean and was lost when his aircraft crashed into the sea off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  The details of the crash are not known.  Neither the aircraft or his remains were recovered.  The type of aircraft is also unknown, but was likely an F6F Hellcat, like the type flown out of Charlestown at the time. 

     Ensign Monagle is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/246216063/william-joseph-monagle

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