McGrath, Edmund J.
Navy Lieutenant (junior grade)

Edmund J. McGrath, age 24, from Chicago, Illinois, Cook county.

Parents: Joseph T. McGrath

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)