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James O. Conway Memorial

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16892814 ↗
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North of Logan Airport in Boston, United States, there is a memorial for air force pilot James O. Conway, who died in 1954.

The memorial stone bears this inscription:

First Lt. James O. Conway

Pilot, Air National Guard,

101st Fighter Interceptor Squadron,

2 October 1954.

First Lieutenant James O. Conway gave his life

to protect the Bayswater Street

neighborhood. Lt. Conway remained at the

controls of his disabled aircraft rather than

abandon his plane and risk the lives of others.

His heroism, courage and personal sacrifice

reflect the highest credit upon himself and the

Massachusetts Air National Guard.

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This entry incorporates text from “James O. Conway Memorial” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.