Lieutenant Heinzen, age 23, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was the pilot of a Navy transport plane which crashed into Mount Beacon at Beacon, New York, on 11 November 1945, while on a flight from Caldwell, New Jersey, to Quansot, Rhode Island. Six persons were aboard the plane and all were killed, including Commodore Dixie Kiefer. Click on Commodore Kiefer’s link for complete information on the incident.
HEINZEN, LLOYD PAUL
- LT US NAVAL REESERVE ND
- DATE OF DEATH: 11/11/1945
- BURIED AT: SECTION 10 SITE 10504 W
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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