Herrin, Billy Blythe
Navy Aviation machinist’s mate 2nd class

Billy Blythe Herrin, age 22, from Malone, Texas, Hill county.

Parents: L.M. Herrin

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, April 5, 1942
Death details: Killed when the Consolidated “Catalina” PBY-5a seaplane, returning from 12.5 hours of patrolling the waters around Hawaii for enemy forces, crashed trying to land in bad weather.

Source: National Archives, Hawaii Museum of Flying, Waco New Tribune (1947)