Charles T. Caverow Jr.

Rank: Ensign

Branch: U.S. Navy

Serial: 0-299065

Unit: Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 21 (CASU-21)

Entered the service from: New Jersey

Died: November 16, 1943

Memorialized at: Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial, New York City

Ensign Charles Theodore Caverow Jr. was born in New Jersey in 1921 to Charles Theodore and Myrtle Caverow. The elder Caverow was a commercial plasterer. The Caverows were originally from Pennsylvania, but had moved around as Mr. Caverow plied his trade. Their first child, a daughter, was born in Massachusetts in 1918. By 1930 the family was living at 2262 Penn Street in Pennsauken NJ. They later moved to 6908 Grant Street, also in Pennsauken.

Known to friends and family as “Ted,” Ensign Caverow had enlisted in the United States Navy on June 29, 1942. He had won his wings and was commissioned as a pilot around January 1, 1943. He was killed in a mid-air collision over Chesapeake Bay on November 16, 1943. His body was not recovered, and he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the East Coast Memorial in New York City.

Ensign Caverow’s great-grandfather, Amos Caverow, lived in Camden during the 1880s, and served briefly with the Camden Fire Department before returning to Philadelphia.

Charles T. Caverow Jr. 6908 Grant Avenue, Pennsauken NJ, has completed preliminary flight training as a Navy pilot at Chapel Hill NC and has been transferred to the aviation base at Kansas City MO, along with Elmer G. Stratton of 222 Monmouth Street, Gloucester, and Earl W. Hansen of Randolph Avenue, East Riverton.