Manown, Jay Ross Jr.
Navy Reserves Lieutenant

Jay Ross Jr. Manown from Morgantown, West Virginia, Monongalia county.

Parents: Jay Ross Manown Sr.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, September 10, 1944
Death details: On September 10, 1944, a TBM-1 Avenger (Bureau Number 17018), with a crew of three, took off from the USS Enterprise for a strike mission against Japanese forces in the Palau Islands. The plane was last seen spinning violently before crashing into the water a few hundred feet from Malakal Island. All three members of the crew were lost in the incident. Lieutenant Jay Ross Manown Jr. entered the U.S. Navy from Virginia and served in Torpedo Squadron 20. He was the pilot of this Avenger when it went down, and he was killed in the incident. His remains have not been recovered or identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Lieutenant Manown is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Source: National Archives