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Jack Walter Griffith
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Rank
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
Unit
24 FITRON
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Date of Death
July 4, 1952
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USNA Class of 1944, Lieutenant Griffith was as the pilot of a F9F-2 Panther Jet fighter with Fighter Squadron 24 aboard the USS BOXER (CV-21). On July 4, 1952, while serving as a photographic escort south of Wonsan, Korea, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire, crashed and exploded. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on May 25, 1954. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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