Ambrose of Bernardsville, New Jersey, he attended Villanova University before transferring to Gonzaga. The P-51 crashed while landing at Gray Field just after a formation flight over Gov. Mon C. Wallgren's reviewing stand during a Governor's Day review. The field is two miles from the north Fort Lewis parade grounds, where the reviewing stands were located. 23 June "Two Navy planes, flying in a seven-ship formation, crashed and burned today after colliding over the heavily-populated east side area of Detroit. The flaming wreckage set fire to four houses and a tool shop as scores of residents fled to safety. The two pilots of the single-seater planes died in the crash, and one tool shop employe [sic] was slightly injured when struck by flaming debris. First reports of the accident said three planes were involved, but public relations officers at the Grosse Ile naval air station said only two craft figured in the crash. Lieutenant Commander David A. Black, public relations officer, said that when the two planes collided, the others scattered hurriedly. This led some ground spectators to believe three planes had crashed, he said." Falling wreckage set a fire in a one-block area, but rescue personnel said that they thought all occupants had escaped. They were part of a cross-country formation by VA-89A to Traverse City, and the collision occurred during a right turn over Detroit. The prop of F4U-4 Corsair BuNo 96790, flown by Ens. Roy K. Schultheiss, 24, of Port Huron, Michigan, cut the tail off the F6F-5 Hellcat BuNo 79445 piloted by Ens. J. H. Nicholson, 25, Scranton, Iowa. The Hellcat crashed through the roof of the Putnam Tool Company on Charlevoix; sixty people in the machine shop fled to safety. The Corsair crashed and exploded two blocks away on Benson, near McDougall. Observers said that the pilots could have saved themselves by jumping, but stayed with their planes to try to avoid damage to those living below. 27 June A P-51 Mustang of the California Air National Guard and an A-26 Invader of the 115th Bomb Squadron, California Air National Guard, on a training mission out of Van Nuys Airport, collided over Blythe, California. The craft fell outside town, with burning wreckage spread over a quarter-mile of the Colorado Desert. Three Guardsmen were killed, and two parachuted to safety. "Lt. Raymond L. Mathews of Los Angeles, pilot of the fighter, and Lt. Harold A. Bowen