Shark attack, 1944-05-04 (Unprovoked)
Location: , Caribbean Sea, PANAMA
Activity: Washed overboard by swell
Victim: US Naval seaman,  one of a crew on a Panama Sea Frontier Naval Patrol craft manned by Coast Guard (M, age )
Injury: FATAL. His back was bitten as he was being towed to ship by rescuer, Lieut (j.g.) Stanley Kurta, then the shark pulled him below the surface. 
Fatal: Y
Species: White shark, 2.4 m [8'] 
Source: Star & Herald (Panama), 5/17/1944; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.6;  V.M. Coppleson (1962), p.258;