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Last Rank
Lieutenant
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Last Primary NEC
6302-LDO Pilot
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Last Rating/NEC Group
Limited Duty Officer
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Primary Unit
1951-1954, 6302, VP-2 Neptunes
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Service Years
1942 - 1954
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Home State
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Year of Birth
1922 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Sheila Rae Myers, HM3
to remember
Beasley, Jesse, LT.
If you knew or served with this Sailor and have additional information or photos to support this Page, please leave a message for the Page Administrator(s) HERE.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
Dixon Springs, TN |
Last Address
Dixon Springs, TN
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Casualty Date
Jan 04, 1954 |
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Cause
Non Hostile- Body Not Recovered |
Reason
Air Loss, Crash - Sea |
Location
Pacific |
Conflict
Korean War |
Location of Interment
Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, Virginia |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
MC 32-1 (Memorial) |
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Last Known Activity
Lieutenant Beasley was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was the plane commander of a P2V-5 Neptune patrol bomber with Patrol Squadron 2, US Navy. While on a night reconnaissance mission of North Korea and China coasts on January 4, 1954, contact was lost and he was declared Missing in Action.
According to the radio log, the crew left Iwakuni, Japan, at 2:28 p.m., Jan. 4, 1954. Lt. Beasley flew 72 miles off the coast of Manchuria and within 50 miles of China and North Korea.
At 6 p.m. the crew's radio transmissions were full of static. Twenty-three minutes later crew members sent a distress signal indicating the plane had lost an engine and they wanted to land at the nearest base, at Gunsan, South Korea. But for reasons Coble cannot explain, the crew apparently received the wrong coordinates to Gunsan. They didn't get accurate coordinates until much later in the flight, and by then it was too late.
After seven more minutes, crew members radioed for help. The log does not mention an attack by another aircraft, although the log is not complete because of the static in some transmissions.
Less than an hour later, the plane had dropped from 1,500 to 100 feet. It climbed a few hundred feet higher, then crashed into the sea.
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Comments/Citation
Service number: 351146
Please also visit the 3 Cape Cod created by Satch Beasley.
All of the information contained in this profile was compiled from various internet sources as well as information from official documents as supplied by Satch Beasley - Lt Jesse Beasley's son. Photographs of Lt Beasley and the family portrait were contributed by Satch Beasley and used with his permission.
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1942-1942, 6302, USNR Aviator Training V-5 Program
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1942-1943, 6302, Naval Flight Training
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1943-1943, 6302, NAS Memphis
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1943-1944, 6302, Naval Flight Training
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1944-1944, 6302, VB-2B
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1944-1944, 6302, NAS Beaufort, SC
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1944-1945, 6302, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
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1945-1946, 6302, NAS Barbers Point
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1946-1946, 6302, VB-2B
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1946-1948, 6302, VR-7
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1948-1949, 6302, NAS Patuxent River (NASPAX)
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1950-1951, 6302, Branch Dental Clinic NPS Monterey (Faculty Staff), Naval Postgraduate School (Faculty Staff)
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1951-1954, 6302, VP-2 Neptunes
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Listed as Korean War Casualty
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Sep 01, 1942, Enlisted as an Aviation Cadet
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Mar 16, 1944, Promoted to Ensign
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Jun 24, 1944, Married Pauline Elizabeth Hite
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Sep 13, 1945, Qualified as transport plane commander
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Oct 01, 1945, Promoted to Lieutenant (jg)
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May 12, 1952, Qualified as patrol plane commander
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May 27, 1952, Issued special intrument rating card
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Jan 08, 1954, Ex-Tennessean Lost 1
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Jan 13, 1954, Navy Announces Names1
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Aug 15, 2017, Korean War Memorials2
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Aug 15, 2017, General Photos3
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