Date17-May-1943
TypeSea Disaster
CountryCENTRAL PACIFIC
Location68 miles east of Wallis Island
ActivityS2N Navy scout plane went down, E.H. Almond & Lieut A.G. Reading in water
InjuryFATAL, right leg & left thigh bitten
VictimE.H. Almond, US Navy radioman, Male
SourceV.M. Coppleson (1962), p.217; G.A. Llano in Airmen Against the Sea, p.67