|
|
|
|
Herschell B. Thorpe
|
Rank
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
|
|
Date of Death
September 4, 1951
|
|
|
|
Lieutenant Thorpe was the co-pilot of a P2V-3 Neptune twin-engine patrol bomber with Patrol Squadron 5, assigned to the Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. On September 4, 1951, he engaged in an exercise with a submarine 30 miles east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York when a flare became stuck in the aircraft's chute. The plane caught fire, crashed and exploded, killing all seven crewmen on board. |
|
|
|
|
