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• School: Columbia College
• Class Year: 1948
• War: Korean War
• Date of Death: January 2, 1951

First Lieutenant Marshall Edwin Simonson, the pilot of a F9F-2B Panther jet fighter with the Marine Fighter Squadron 311, Marine Air Group 33, 1st Marine Air Wing, U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action on January 2, 1951, while strafing enemy positions near Kaesong, South Korea.

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