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William J. Conway (NY-Fenn Agency - now Mid-Atlantic #119)
Ensign William J. Conway was but one of 15,000 American men and women that were killed in military training accidents during World War Two.

Conway was born in New York City and in June of 1942 resigned from National Life to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Within 11 months, he was promoted to Ensign and assigned for training as a pilot.

On January 13, 1944, Conway was practicing a high-speed dive in his Navy dive-bomber when he pulled up too sharply and blacked out. His plane immediately went out of control and at an estimated 300 MPH, hit the ocean off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Several weeks after the crash, his remains were located and he was buried in a family plot at Fort Lee, New Jersey. He was 28.