NAME Alvin Anthony Nowak |
NICKNAME — |
SERVICE NUMBER 355159 |
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UNIT VMD-154 Assistant Flight Engineer |
HOME OF RECORD 3184 Garfield Street, Detroit, MI |
NEXT OF KIN Mother, Mrs. Anastasia Nowak |
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DATE OF BIRTH 1916 |
ENTERED SERVICE January 19, 1942 |
DATE OF LOSS February 7, 1943 |
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REGION Vanuatu (New Hebrides) |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Espiritu Santo |
CASUALTY TYPE Killed In Action |
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS Corporal Alvin Nowak was an assistant aviation engineer assigned to VMD-154, a Marine reconnaissance squadron based in the New Hebrides Islands. Just after 0400 hours on 7 February 1943, Nowak’s plane – PB4Y-1 BuNo 31958 – took off from Espiritu Santo for the first leg of a planned photographic mission to Truk. The aircraft barely cleared the coastline before it plunged into the sea 600 yards offshore of the airstrip, sinking into 94 fathoms of water. The entire crew was killed in the incident. None of their remains could be recovered. |
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INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Corporal |
STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered |
MEMORIALS National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific |
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