Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

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Hood George R 441222 p1
Five Die in Trio of Air Crashes: George R. Hood; Vernalis Field, Scene Of Mishaps Friday Night; The aviators'
superstition that mishaps come in threes received grim verification Friday night when five died in three separate crashes
in the vicinity of the Vernalis Naval Auxiliary Air Station. Entirely unrelated in cause, the three crackups occurred within
two hours and within a three-mile radius. Ensign Donald Miller of Couer D'Alene, Idaho, was the first victim, lost in
making a forced landing with his fighter plane.   Ensign R. K. Henry, Jr., of Egremont, Mass., was lost in the crack-up of
his fighter plane about three miles from the field. Finally, a bomber crashed a half mile from the field, killing the three
occupants -- Ensign Kevin C. Mead of Greenwich, Conn., Aviation Ordnance man Second Class George R. Hood of
Colver, Penn., and Radioman Third Class A. E. Eggloff of Libertyville, Ill.