Cmdr. Willis B. Haviland died at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Coronado, on 28 November, 1944. He never made it to his overseas "special assignment" however he and a handful of his brave comrades gave us quite a legacy, the birth of what has become modern naval air capability. Cmdr. Haviland also supervised the construction and early operations of one of America's most important naval air installations, NAS Whidbey Island.

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