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Blaine Edward Woodard
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Rank
Aviation Electronics Man Second Class, U.S. Coast Guard
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Date of Death
May 27, 1952
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Aviation Electronics Man Second Class Woorward was a veteran of World War II. During the Korean War he was assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Station, Port Angeles, Washington. On May 27, 1952, he was a crewmember of a Coast Guard PBM-5G Mariner rescue aircraft making a water takeoff in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (Port Angeles, Washington). Moments after lifting off the water, the aircraft lost power and plunged into the water killing him, the co-pilot, a crewmember and an Air Force funeral escort. |
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