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Donald Allen Smith
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Rank
Ensign, U.S. Navy
Unit
6 PATRON
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Date of Death
November 6, 1951
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Ensign Smith was the navigator aboard a patrol bomber, P2V-3 Neptune, from Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6) at Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan. He was on an intelligence gathering mission over the Sea of Japan on November 6, 1951 and was shot down by Soviet fighters near Vladivostok, USSR. He was presumed dead on November 7, 1952. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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