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NAME Paul Timothy Coe |
NICKNAME — |
SERVICE NUMBER O-14321 |
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| UNIT VMF-221 Pilot |
HOME OF RECORD 2302 14th Street, Lubbock, TX |
NEXT OF KIN Father, Mr. J. C. Cole |
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| 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 |
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| REGION Solomon Islands |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Guadalcanal |
CASUALTY TYPE Missing Declared Dead March 20, 1944 |
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| 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. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Second Lieutenant (posthumous First Lieutenant) |
STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered. |
MEMORIALS Manila American Cemetery |
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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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