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AMM2 James Houston Raby

VP-22 Patrol Squadron
Navy
Non-hostile, Aircraft Crash
Remains Not Recovered
Aircraft Type: P2V-4
Aircraft Number: 124227
Date Of Loss: January 21, 1951
Service Number: 2966094
Year Of Birth: 1930
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Location Or Battle Zone: Okinawa
Town Or Area: Naha Air Base
Burial Location
Sweetwater Valley Memorial Park, Sweetwater, Tn

Comments: Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Raby was a crew member of a P2V-4 Neptune patrol bomber with Patrol Squadron 22. On January 21, 1951, after take-off his right engine failed and the aircraft ditched about one mile from Naha Air Base, Okinawa, drowning him. Two sailors were lost in this incident, James H. Raby and Bennie G. Carter.

Quote from East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association. James Houston Raby, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Raby of Sweetwater, was killed in an airplane accident this week. The family was advised of the youthful sailor’s death in a telegram from the Defense Department Monday. He was an Aviation Machinists Mate second class and had served in the U.S. Navy for the past three and one-half years. Before entering the Navy he attended Paint Rock High School. When the Rabys last heard from their son he was in the Hawaiian Islands. The telegram did not reveal the place of the accident. It stated simply that he had been killed and that the body had not been recovered. Besides his family, the sailor is survived by two brothers, Thurston and Billy, and three sisters, Joyce, Lulu and Patsy, all of Sweetwater.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Raby of Sweetwater, Tennessee. Brother of Thurston Raby, Billy Raby, Joyce Raby, Lulu Raby, and Patsy Raby.

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