AVIATION RADIOMAN
SECOND CLASS HERBERT MUGRAUER had lived in Audubon NJ. His father,
Herbert J. Mugrauer, had been in the automobile business in nearby
Oaklyn NJ before moving to 118 West Street in Woodbury NJ.
Entering the Navy
after Pearl Harbor, he qualified for flight duty, and trained as a radio
operator. Flying off the aircraft carrier USS Hancock CV-19, Herbert Mugrauer was killed in action when his plane went down
in the Philippine Islands on October 25, 1944 near the San Bernardino
Straights. Survived by his parents, his death
was reported in the November 27, 1944 edition of the Camden
Courier-Post. |