LTJG BADGER C. SMITH, III, USN
Lucky Bag Yearbook
From the 1959 Lucky Bag:
BADGER C. SMITH, III
Nineteenth Company
Smitty fitted well into any crowd, finding pleasure in good friends and a cool pipe. A good competitor and a strong will to win have served him well on the athletic fields here at Navy. He has definite plans about his future, which he will make in Marine green. A reservist before entering USNA, the Marines will be glad to have him back.
Loss
Badger was lost on January 12, 1962 when the P-2U Neptune patrol plane he was aboard crashed in Greenland.
Other Information
From Find A Grave:
Navigator P2-U patrol plane crashed in 1962, body recovered in September 1966. On a flight from Greenland to Iceland, crashed on Kronborg glacier, found with 11 other service men.
Graduated from St. John’s Military Academy in Washington, D.C. and the United States Naval Academy in 1959. Stationed in Rota, Spain.
From researcher Kathy Franz:
He was an usher at Ensign Fenwick Richard Small’s ‘59 wedding in June 1959. Ensign James Dorsey ‘59 was best man, and another usher was Ensign James Ramsey ‘59. His father lived in Raleigh.
Badger married Patricia Mary O’Keefe on July 4, 1959, in the Walter Reed Memorial Chapel in Washington, D. C.
Badger was “the son of Mrs. Willye B. Hurd and husband of Patricia Smith, all of Washington.”
There is an extensive writeup on the discovery of the aircraft.
Photographs
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