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Joseph Spence Hall
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Rank
Ensign, U.S. Navy
Unit
153 FITRON
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Date of Death
March 17, 1953
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Ensign Hall was the pilot of a F9F-5 Panther Jet fighter with Fighter Squadron 163 aboard the aircraft carrier USS PRINCETON (CVA-37). On March 17, 1953, while on a combat mission north of Trachon, North Korea, his aircraft received a direct hit by anti-aircraft fire, crashed and burst into flames ten miles southwest of Songjong, North Korea. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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