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John Clifford Netherland
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Rank
Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class, U.S. Coast Guard
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Date of Death
July 7, 1953
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Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Netherland was a veteran of World War II. During the Korean War he was assigned to the Coast Guard Air Detachment, Biloxi, Mississippi. On July 7, 1953, he was the Plane Captain of 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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