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Contact Info
Home Town McGraws
Last Address VB-14 on USS Essex.
Cenotaph at Sect. 55, Lot 8-F of Evergreen Cemetery Southgate, Campbell County, Kentucky
MIA Date Nov 11, 1944
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Pacific
Conflict World War II
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
VB-15
PILOT: CURTISS SB2C-3 HELLDIVER
LTJG FOOTE'S AIRCRAFT WAS SHOT DOWN DURING THE BATTLE OF
LEYTE GULF, 11 NOV 1944.
USS HORNET (CV-12)
USS ESSEX (CV-9)
Other Comments:
Also memorialized at:Manila American Cemetery Location:Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Leyte Campaign (1944)/Battle of Surigao Strait
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
October / 1944
Description The Battle of Surigao Strait took place here on October 25, 1944, when the "cross the T" incident took place as American battleships fire their guns over Vice Admiral Shoji Nishimura's Southern Force; nearly all of which, including the battleships Yamashiro and Fusi and others were sunk. Admiral Nishimura was killed in action when his flagship Yamashiro sank following actions against Jesse B. Oldendorf's battleships, all but one of which had been at Pearl Harbor.
