Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1965 Lucky Bag:

LYNN MICHAEL TRAVIS

Soft spoken and easy going, Mike is another member of the southern contingent here at U.S.N.A. Hailing from Arkansas he is endowed with copious quantities of that southern hospitality and given a body of water and some fishing gear he is really in his glory. During his tour at Navy, Mike came to love two departments more than any others. Between touching hot leads together in Second Class Skinny Lab and those numerous encounters with the Executive Department he managed to stave off the usual boredom of academy life. Being both a good man to go on liberty with and a real demon in the classroom, Mike’s magnetic personality and desire to succeed should lay the world at his feet.

Loss

Mike was lost when his P-3B crashed on February 6, 1968 in the Gulf of Thailand (9°30'50.0"N 104°07'30.0"E) while on a patrol flight. He was a member of Patrol Squadron (VP) 26.

Other Information

From the July-August 1968 issue of Shipmate:

Lt. Lynn M. Travis, USN, died 6 February in an aircraft accident in the Gulf of Siam. He was copilot of the P-3 Orion, and was serving with Patrol Squadron 26 based at Brunswick, Me., on deployment in the Philippines. Memorial services were held for the crew in the Naval Station Chapel, Sangley Point, Philippines and in the Naval Air Station Chapel, Brunswick, and for Lt. Travis at Newport, Ark., his home town.

Lt. Travis was born in Paducah, Ky., and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1965. He had basic flight training at Pensacola, and received his wings at Corpus Christi in October 1966. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant posthumously.

Surviving are his widow, Barbara, and a 6-month-old son, Michael Richard, of Brookfield Center, Ct.; his parents; a brother, Freeman, and two sisters, Molly and Rebecca.

Lynn is listed at the Courts of the Missing in Hawaii; Find A Grave has two additional pages for him.

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Gaylord Parrett, Jr. ‘65 was also in 36th Company.

Memorial Hall Errors

Lynn is listed on the killed in action panel in the front of Memorial Hall. There is no evidence to support this; the commanding officer of the squadron in his eulogy said they were engaged in “patrol duties.”

As noted in the Shipmate article above, he was promoted posthumously to Lieutenant; Memorial Hall has LTjg.