Daniel G. Booth Jr.

Rank: Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class, U.S. Navy

Serial: 08262606

Unit: Torpedo Bomber Squadron VT-80, USS Ticonderoga

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: January 16, 1945

Missing in action or buried at sea. Listed on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.

Aviation Ordnanceman 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, New Jersey, along with uncles William and Stanley, aunts Caroline, Elizabeth, and Emma Anderson, and 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, Florida. He later went overseas as a member of Torpedo Bomber Squadron VT-80, aboard 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, New Jersey.