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<span style="color:#006400">'''LEGGIO, Dominic'''</span> ( -1947), Ensign killed in a single-engine plane crash off Long Point, Santa Catalina Island on April 2, 1947.

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=====<span style="color:#006400">In the News~</span>=====

'''April 3, 1947 [San Pedro News Pilot]:''' “Crashed Plane's Pilot Identified. The navy today released the name of the pilot of the SC-1 scouting plane which crashed yesterday into the sea off Long Point, Catalina Island. Listed as dead is Ensign Dominic Leggio, USNR, of Seymour, Conn. The single-seater plane, based at Terminal Island, crashed near the fishing boat ''Atlantic'', which picked up parts of the aircraft but did not locate the body. Eyewitnesses aboard the Atlantic said they saw the plane flying low over the water, then saw the plane's right wing strike the water, crash and explode. The coast guard cutter ''Hermes'' dispatched to the scene, picked up part of a wing and part of a pontoon, and turned it over to the navy.”

'''April 4, 1947 [LAT]:''' “Victim of crash. Naval authorities yesterday identified the pilot of a single-seater scout plane who crashed to his death off Santa Catalina Island last Tuesday as Ensign Dominic Leggio of Seymour, Ct. Attached to the Naval Air Station, Terminal Island, he had been on a scouting mission when his SC-1 plunged into the sea, exploded and sank. Eyewitnesses said Leggio had been flying low just before a wingtip snagged a wave near a cove.”

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