Capt. Laffin's mother was Japanese, and he
led the Marauders MIS group. Capt. Laffin was an executive for the Ford Motor
Company working in Japan when the war broke out, and was among those repatriated
on the Sweedish liner Gripsolm when America and Japan exchanged nationals
shortly after the war started. He was also the Marauders intelligence officer (S-2).
Capt Laffin was Killed In Action (Myityina, Burma. May 17,1944) while flying over
Myitkyina in a L-1 examining the Japanese defenses when a flight of Japanese
Zeros put in one of their occasional appearances and shot down his plane.
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= K.I.A. - Myitkyina, Burma