Dinan, Gerald J.
Navy Aviation electronics technician 1st class

Gerald J. Dinan, age 25, from Zanesville, Ohio, Muskingum county.

Parents: Gerald Andrew Dinan

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Wednesday, November 8, 1961
Death details: Among 11 Navy men killed when their Neptune bomber plunged into the oceans 100 miles off Virginia. The two-engine, long-range bomber was taking part in an antisubmarine training mission with the carrier Lake Champlain.

Source: Associated Press (1961), Portland Press Herald (1961)