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Howard Wilson Westervelt
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Rank
Lieutenant Junior Grade, U.S. Navy
Unit
192 FITRON
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Date of Death
September 12, 1952
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Westervelt was the pilot of a F4U-4 Corsair fighter with Fighter Squadron 192 aboard the USS PRINCETON (CV-37). On September 12, 1952, following a bombing run on an industrial target near Kowon, Korea, his aircraft received a direct hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed into a hillside. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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