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Casualty Info
Home Town Frankln, KS
Last Address Gallup, NM
Casualty Date Jan 12, 1945
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location South China Sea
Conflict World War II/China-Burma-India Theater/China Defensive Campaign (1942-45)
Location of Interment Santa Fe National Cemetery (VA) - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wall/Plot Coordinates MA-9 (memorial marker)
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
During operations along the Indo-China coast, the USS Cabot (CVL-28) was assigned a search area and aircraft was launched to seek out enemy vessels and planes. On January 21, 1945, ENS Walker was aboard an Avenger torpedo bomber that didn't retrun to the carrier. He was listed as missing in action and later declared dead.
Comments/Citation:
Service number: 0347634
ENS Walker enlisted in the Navy in 1941 and served in the enlisted ranks until he attended flight school and earned his pilots wings.
Asiatic-Pacific Specified Raids (1944)/Formosa Air Battle
From Month/Year
October / 1944
To Month/Year
October / 1944
Description The Formosa Air Battle took place between October 10 and 20, 1944, off the eastern coasts of the Ryukyu Islands, Formosa, and Luzon. It was fought by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and the approaching Task Force 38 of the United States Third Fleet and was one of a series of air raids on Japan during the Pacific War. The attacks served to prevent Japanese aircraft from participating in the Battle of Leyte Gulf later that month.
The battle was one-sided, as the U.S. practically dominated the air war due to the superior training and weaponry that it possessed at that point. Japanese air power in the region was battle exhausted, giving the Americans air superiority and weakening Japan's ability to defend the Okinawa Islands in the upcoming Okinawa Campaign. However, in an effort to boost morale and to cover up th