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Melvin Leslie Sweet
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Rank
Airman First Class, U.S. Air Force
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Date of Death
July 7, 1953
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Airman First Class Sweet was assigned to Keesler Air Fotce Base, Mississippi. On July 7, 1953, he was serving as a Medical Corpsman on a Coast Guard PBY-5 rescue aircraft on a mission to evacuate an injured seaman aboard a shrimp boat in the North Pass of the Lower Mississippi (Louisiana). The aircraft went out of control upon landing and sank killing him and two other crewmen. |
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