View a eulogy for Mahlon Allison Smith, USMA '49, who passed away on November 11, 1954.
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Mahlon Allison Smith
West Point, 1949
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Terry Powers on November 6, 2022:
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Source: www.findagrave.com/memorial/85187477/mahlon-allison-smith West Point graduate, who went on to become one of our nation's first Airforce jet pilots, flying an F-86 Sabre jet. While stationed at the Ethan Allen Airforce base in Burlington, Vermont, Terry's squadron was scrambled to intercept an unidentified aircraft bearing towards the Canadian border at dawn on Veterans Day in 1954. After take-off, his fighter jet experienced a low altitude "flameout" while over Burlington. He declined to bail out of his jet in an effort to make a forced landing. Terry guided his jet into an unoccupied drive-in theater parking lot, thereby avoiding additional casualties. Source: Obiturary 12 Nov 1954 Des Moines, Iowa, USA The Des Moines Register Lists as Survivors, Wife (a/o 2022 deceased) Father (a/o 2022 deceased) Mother (a/o 2022 deceased) Sister (a/o 2022 deceased) two children No Names given. |
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