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Paul T. Coe

NAME
Paul Timothy Coe
NICKNAME
SERVICE NUMBER
O-14321
UNIT
VMF-221
Pilot
HOME OF RECORD
2302 14th Street, Lubbock, TX
NEXT OF KIN
Father, Mr. J. C. Cole
DATE OF BIRTH
May 23, 1918
at Collingsworth, TX
ENTERED SERVICE
1938 (Army Reserve)
September 15, 1942 (USMC commission)
DATE OF LOSS
March 19, 1943
REGION
Solomon Islands
CAMPAIGN / AREA
Guadalcanal
CASUALTY TYPE
Missing
Declared Dead March 20, 1944
CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS
Second Lieutenant Paul T. Coe was a Marine fighter pilot. He joined VMF-221 in December 1942, and flew his first missions out of Espiritu Santo.

Coe was lost on a patrol flight on 19 March 1943. He was reported as “missing in airplane accident” on that date, and was declared dead on 20 March 1944.

INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS
Purple Heart
LAST KNOWN RANK
Second Lieutenant
(posthumous First Lieutenant)
STATUS OF REMAINS
Not recovered.
MEMORIALS
Manila American Cemetery

Biography:
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Sunday 28 March
Held here until 1100. Word rec’d that we will go aboard tomorrow. Went ashore. My French is improving. A week here & I would speak it. Weather closed down so returned at 1400 after having lunch at “Hotel Sepastapol.” Still expect to go aboard tomorrow though weather is bad. Word rec’d today that Lt. Paul Coe got it at Cactus. Went down in flames into the sea.

Lt. Charles C. Winnia, VMF-213, “Diary of a Corsair Pilot in the Solomons”


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