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Ralph Maxfield
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Rank
Aviation Electronics Technician Third Class, U.S. Navy
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Date of Death
August 27, 1950
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Aviation Electronics Technician Third Class Maxfield was the radio operator 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. |
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