Windsor Locks, Connecticut – June 5, 1942
Narragansett Bay – Rhode Island
Curtis P-40 Aircraft
U. S. Army Air Corps Photo
On June 5, 1942, 2nd Lt. Martin Taub of Newark, New Jersey, was piloting a P-40E (41-24782) over Rhode Island when his aircraft crashed in Narragansett Bay, killing him.
It was reported that he was the second serviceman from New Jersey to loose his life in an aviation accident over southern New England that day. The other pilot was Richard Marshall Stafford, (25), of Summit, N.J. who was killed in a crash at Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Stafford’s plane was a P-40F, (41-13765).
Sources:
New York Times, “New Jersey Pilot Killed”, June 7, 1942
The Waterbury Democrat, “Flyer Killed At Winsdor Locks”, June 5, 1942, page 10.
