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• School: Law
• Class Year: 1934
• War: World War II
• Date of Death: April 27, 1945

Lieutenant Colonel John R. Morrison, 7th Army, U.S. Army, was killed on April 27, 1945, near Nuremburg, Germany, when the jeep in which he was riding hit a mine.

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