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• School: Law
• Class Year: 1943
• War: World War II
• Date of Death: October 19, 1944

Lieutenant Thomas H. Ralston, U.S. Naval Air Corps, died in an aviation accident in San Diego, California, in October 1944. He had been serving in the lighter-than-air division.

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