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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
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Leyte Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
November / 1944
Description The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October 1944 - 1 July 1945. The operation code named King Two launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.