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66) Lieutenant Wilford Willy

Courtesy of Find a Grave

66)  Wilford Willy

Navy Lieutenant & Joe Kennedy Jr’s Co-Pilot on the Doomed Operation Aphrodite

Born: 13 May 1909, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Died: 12 August 1944, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Very little information for Lieutenant Willy is available on the internet, but he does have two different Find a Grave profiles to honor him (one of which is linked below).

At the time of his death he had been married for nine years.

For his actions in the war, Lieutenant Willy was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

Badges Earned:

Find a Grave Marked

Located In My Personal Library:

The House of Kennedy by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen

Sources:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-secret-drone-mission-that-killed-joseph-kennedy-jr-5985733

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/21633

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104438508/wilford-john-willy

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