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information-about-overseas-service: VOLUNTEERED FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE AND SHIPPED BY AIR TRANSPORT IN AUGUST 1945 TO YONTAN FIELD OKINAWA. SERVICED PLANE FOR AERIAL MOVEMENT OF TROOPS TO JAPAN. FLOWN TO TEZGARN FIELD, DACCA INDIA IN SEPTEMBER 1945 SERVICED PLANES FOR TRANSPORT OF GASOLINE TO CHINA. LEFT INDIA ENROUTE TO U.S. BY AIR TRANSPORT NOVEMBER 1, 1945. REPORTED MISSING IN PLANE CRASH NOVEMBER 3, 1945

citations-decorations-service-medals-etc: NONE

circumstances-of-death: Kill Accidentally

area-of-place-of-death: 450 MILES EAST OF HONOLULU, IN PACIFIC OCEAN

date-of-death: 1945-11-03

any-other-details-known: REPORTED MISSING IN CRASH OF CONVERTED LB-30 AIRPLANE ON NOV. 3, 1945 AND REPORTED DEAD ON NOV. 10, 1945

photograph: Yes

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first-name: BENJAMIN

middle-name: EVANS

last-name: WAINWRIGHT

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address: 4608 KING STREET, PORTSMOUTH

relationship: FATHER

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first-name: BENJAMIN

middle-name: THOMAS

last-name: WAINWRIGHT

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address: 4608 KING STREET, PORTSMOUTH, VA.

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