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World War II Honoree

Killed in World War II

Elmer Andrew Conzett

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Dubuque, Iowa

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

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Activity During WWII

Sank a Japanese destroyer at the Battle of Guadalcanal as a dive bomber. also participated in the bombing of Truk, where twenty-three enemy ships were sunk. On December 7, 1946 he was making a one-night stopover in Atlanta, Georgia and stayed at the Winecoff Hotel while ferrying Navy planes from Norfolk, Virginia to Long Beach, California. He perished there in the deadly hotel fire.