Ensign Wallace Keith Smythe | UW Gold Star Honor Roll
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Wallace Keith Smythe

Graduating Class of 1945
Served in World War II

Ensign
Wallace Keith Smythe

Navy

Hometown

Madison, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Primitive Methodist Cemetery, Benton, WI

More About Ensign Smythe

Ensign Smythe recieved his preliminary flight instruction at Glenview, IL and completed his naval flight training and was commissioned at Corpus Christi, TX in April. He was killed in a torpedo bomber crash 10 miles of the coast of Lauderdale, FL. Ens. Smythe is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing at the East Coast Memorial in New York, NY.