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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: May 26, 2013
Caption: Shea Field Memorial Grove Marker
Additional Description: Shea Field-May 25, 1946-Dedicated to Commander John Joseph Shea, USN, former Commanding Officer of Naval Air Station Squantum, who heroically gave his life in enemy action aboard the USS Wasp, sunk in the South Pacific 15 September 1942. (small plaque below the bronze plaque)To perpetuate the memory of Commander John Joseph Shea this commemorative plaque was removed from Shea Field, Naval Air Station Squantum, upon its decommissioning on 23 December 1953 and placed at Naval Air Station South Weymouth on 14 October 1954.
Submitted: June 26, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p245700
File Size: 3.866 Megabytes

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