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ADC Travis Lee Ladd

VP-892 Patrol Squadron
Navy
Non-hostile, Aircraft Crash
Date Of Loss: August 8, 1952
Service Number: 0000
Born: January 19, 1923
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Roane County, Tennessee
Location Or Battle Zone: Japan
Town Or Area: Ozu - Shikoku Island - Mountain Crash
Burial Location
Northview Cemetery, Dearborn, Mi

Comments: Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Ladd was a crew member of a PBM-5S Mariner patrol bomber with Patrol Squadron 892, based at Naval Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.

The Fighting Flying Boat: A History of the Martin PBM Mariner: VP-892 Aircraft SE-2, which took off from Iwakuni on 8 Aug 1952 and crashed into a mountain in Shikoku had a BUNO of 87842. It was vectored into a mountain by radar ground control. Investigation revealed that a U.S. Air Force ground controller, unfamiliar with the extremely slow climb performance of a loaded Mariner, had assumed SE-2 had reached an altitude to clear the hills.

Local residents build a memorial called the U.S. Seaplane VP-892 Memorial Monument Preservation Group in honor of the crewmembers.

Husband of Dolly L. Ladd of Milton, Florida.

Korean War Project Key No: 36979

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NORTHVIEW CEMETERY, DEARBORN, MI

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