Age 28. 81 Highland Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Born (as Otto Dzendolet) on 3/20/1914, in Cambridge. Died of burns (death certificate). Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve. Commanding officer at the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Flying Field, Mansfield, MA. Was visiting home on a Thanksgiving holiday weekend furlough. The Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 12/01/1942: "Lt. Arthur Dzendolet...aided many persons in getting out of the Cocoanut Grove before he collapsed and succumbed to the flames." MansfieldNews, Mansfield, MA, 12/04/1942: "He was removed from the night club on Piedmont Street...and rushed to the Faulkner Hospital...where he died." Final identity of his remains was confirmed by the Navy through military dental records. Was a graduate of Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge. Attended M.I.T. three years prior to entering the armed forces. Assigned to the Navy aircraft carriers U.S.S. Yorktown and U.S.S. Enterprise before coming to his Mansfield post. Was also a flight instructor at the Naval Aviation Training Station, Squantum (Quincy), MA. "He was among the aviators which made the famous Good Will Flight to South America a few years ago" (Mansfield News, 12/04/1942). Was single. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Otton and Caroline (Blodgett) Dzendolet, same address. At public hearings in November 1946 his mother voice objection to a proposed pardon due to failing health for convicted club owner Barnett "Barney" Welansky (Born 11/22/1897. Died 1/27/1947, heart failure, age 49). Revealed in 2023 by a family descendant, Karen Dzendolet (her father and Lieut. Dzendolet were brothers), that decades later her own parents and a Mr. Felix Oppenheim, sibling of a Grove victim in a separate party, Stéphane Oppenheim, age 26, by chance both resided near one another in the remote hamlet of Pelham, MA ("It's interesting that two brothers of victims ended up living on the same street in western Mass...."). Burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.