The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Jack Walter Griffith
Rank
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
Unit
24 FITRON
Date of Death
July 4, 1952
USNA Class of 1944, Lieutenant Griffith was as the pilot of a F9F-2 Panther Jet fighter with Fighter Squadron 24 aboard the USS BOXER (CV-21). On July 4, 1952, while serving as a photographic escort south of Wonsan, Korea, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire, crashed and exploded. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on May 25, 1954. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.