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AVIATION ORDINANCEMAN
DANIEL G. BOOTH JR. was born in Pennsylvania in 1923. His mother died
before he turned 6, and in April 1930, when the census was taken, he was
living with his father in the home of his grandmother Mary E. Booth at
414 Monmouth Street in Gloucester City NJ, along with uncles William and
Stanley, Aunts Caroline, Elizabeth, and Emma Anderson, cousins Emma and
William Anderson. Daniel Booth was a
graduate of Gloucester City High School. After high school he worked at
the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard prior to joining the
United States Navy on March 22, 1943.
In December of 1943,
Daniel Booth was stationed at Fort Lauderdale FL. He later went overseas
as a mmebr of Torpedo Bomber Squadron VT-80, aboard the the USS
Ticonderoga, and was serving in the Pacific when the
Grumman
TBM Avenger torpedo bomber he was in failed to return from a mission on January
16, 1945. He was
declared presumed dead one year and one day later. He was survived by
his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Booth, of 208 North King
Street, Gloucester City NJ.
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