First Lieutenant Douglas Marshall Smith | UW Gold Star Honor Roll
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Douglas Marshall Smith

Graduating Class of 1952
Served in The Korean War
Attached photograph of First Lieutenant Smith

First Lieutenant
Douglas Marshall Smith

Air Force
35th Fighter Squadron
8th Fighter-Bomber Group

Hometown

Oshkosh, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

North Korea

Date of Death

Location of Burial

Korean War Veterans Memorial, Dayton, OH

More About First Lieutenant Smith

First Lieutenant Smith was the pilot of a F-80C Shooting Star fighter interceptor. On March 16, 1953, while on a solo night reconnaissance mission, his aircraft crashed. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on March 17, 1954. His remains were not recovered, his name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.