DOB/DOD: March 20, 1922 (Beacon, NY) – April 7, 1945; 23 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
LOCAL ADDRESS: 1 Pine Hill Avenue, East Norwalk
ENLISTMENT: July 27, 1942
SERVICE NUMBER: O-320876
SHIP ASSIGNED TO: USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
STATUS: Missing In Action — “Unaccounted For”
FAMILY: Born to Stephen (1885-1969) and Catherine Beerwa (1889-1967). Two brothers, John (1925-1977) and Frank (1927-1951). Three sisters, Mary Beerwa Palumbo (1909-1992), Annie Beerwa Cox (1919-1964), and Elenor Beerwa Warner (1922-2001).
OTHER: Brother Frank Beerwa, 4 years younger, was killed in action during the Korean War.
CIRCUMSTANCES: FG-1A pilot who never returned from a mission from the USS Bunker Hill. From www2db.org: Just 5 weeks after LtJG Beerwa’s plane was lost, on May 11, 1945, the USS Bunker Hill was hit by two Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan, killing 373.
Norwalk High School Class of ‘40
1938 Norwalk High School soccer team
Norwalk High School football team 1939
From The Norwalk Hour May 5, 1945
Lieutenant (j.g.) Andrew Stephen Bearwa, 22, USNR, son of Steve Bearwa of Pine Hill Road, is missing in action in the Pacific Theatre of War, according to word received today by his father. Lieutenant Bearwa, a plane pilot, was on a plane carrier. He has been missing since April. Lieutenant Bearwa was commissioned in November 1943 at the Naval Air Training Center in Pensacola, Florida.
Memorialized as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea, Tablets of the Missing, Court 5, at Honolulu Memorial, 2177 Puowaina Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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