TBM Avenger crashes into another on landing on USS Block Island on April 3rd 1945

2nd Lieutenant Jack Marconi overshot the wire and bounced over the crash barriers, hitting the aircraft that had just landed before him. He survived this incident only to lose his life less than two months later when he was killed in action on May 29th 1945.

While the pilots of both aircraft were recovered, Technical Sergeant John Donald Sykes Jr. who was on the wing of the static aircraft was knocked into the sea by the collision and is still listed as missing in action.