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Nelson, Robert “Ozzie”

d.9/8/52 122 Crotzer. CHS ’43. Ozzie played guard on the football team. He enlisted in the Navy right out of high school. When the war was over, he attended Pitt, then reenlisted in the Navy and was killed in a mid-air collision at McChord Field. He was married only 3 months. Buried in Arlington National…

Survived WWII. Worked for the CIA and was killed in Japan during peacetime.

d.5/23/43 Lt. Col. Air Corp. Richard was shot down over the Aleutian Islands. He was the brother in law of Norma Lamb. Awarded a DFC for leading a squadron against a numerically superior Japanese force in the Aleutians.