Dewitt Shumway '32, recipient of the Navy Cross and two Distinguished Flying Crosses for action in WWII, was killed in 1946 by an errant bomb on Culebra Island, Puerto Rico. He was the acting commanding officer of Bombing Squadron (VB) 3 aboard USS Saratoga during the Battle of Midway and later the non-acting commanding officer during raids on the Solomon Islands in August 1942.
He was survived by his wife, Helen, son, David, his mother, and his sister.
To Honor! ⚓
