WW2 Fallen - Navy Nurse Margaret Gavin + Tony Randall

Ensign Margaret Gavin was a navy nurse killed on a R4D-5 that was involved in a midair collision.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159612473/margaret-patricia-gavin
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Margaret Patricia Gavin never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, she sacrificed her life for our freedom.

If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WW2 fallen, I invite you to help write some!  Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War 2 fallen in one free-to-access central database.  Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.

Margaret was born on February 26, 1920 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her parents James and Lucile were also both born in Tennessee. Her father worked as a packing company bookkeeper, and later as a manager and office clerk for Standard Oil. Margaret had one older sister, five younger sisters, and one younger brother. By 1940 Margaret had completed four years of high school and was still living at home.

She enlisted in the US Navy and became an ensign and nurse assigned to a base in Florida(?).

Ensign Gavin was killed in a plane crash in Jacksonville, Florida on November 6, 1944. She was a passenger in a Douglas R4D-5 (DC-3) that collided in midair with a FG-1A Corsair. The planes crashed into the St. Johns River with no survivors. 

Her grave is at Calvary Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thank you Ensign Gavin for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Margaret.

TONY RANDALL
The well known Broadway, movie, and TV actor Tony Randall was born on the same date at Margaret Gavin. He was born in Oklahoma.

Randall served four years in the US Army Signal Corps during World War 2.

http://exhibits.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/randall.html

Randall began his Broadway career in 1946. By the late 1950s he was appearing in movies in supporting roles. He is best known for staring in the TV comedy The Odd Couple. He died in 2004.

Last year on this date I profiled Kwajalein fallen Harold Fisher, 7th Infantry Division. You can read about Harold here.

On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!

I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.

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