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LeWayne Newcomb Felts
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Rank
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Coast Guard
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Date of Death
July 6, 1953
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Lieutenant Commander Felts was a veteran of World War II. During the Korean War, he was a assigned to the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio as a student in the Graduate Aeronautical Engineering Course. On July 6, 1953, he was the pilot of an Air Force Beechcraft C-45B Expeditor, which crashed after takeoff from Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, killing him and three Air Force personnel. |
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