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Wallace Ray Metz
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Rank
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force
Unit
815 TRP CARR SQ 483 TRP CARR WING
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Date of Death
June 23, 1953
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Lieutenant Metz was co-pilot of a C-119, Flying Boxcar, with the 815th Troop Carrier Squadron, 483rd Troop Carrier Wing. He was listed as Missing in Action on June 23, 1953, when his plane crashed in the ocean off Tsukishima Island, near Hiroshima, Japan while transporting paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team to Korea. |
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