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Paul Laverne Schaefer
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Rank
Lieutenant Junior Grade, U.S. Navy
Unit
114 FITRON
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Date of Death
June 20, 1951
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Lieutenant Schaefer was the pilot of a F4U-4 Corsair fighter with Fighter Squadron 114 (884) aboard the carrier USS BOXER (CV-21). On June 20, 1951, during a strafing attack three miles south of Songjin, North Korea, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed in shallow water. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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