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Paul Arthur Ortman
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Rank
Commander, U.S. Coast Guard
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Date of Death
June 26, 1954
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Commander Ortman a veteran of World War II. During the Korean War, he was a was the executive officer of the Coast Guard Ship WESTWIND. On June 26, 1954, he was riding as an observer in the ship's HLT-1 helicopter, when it crashed on ice floes in Baltic Bay, Greenland. |
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