LT Alexander McEwen, USN '43 was executive officer of USS Dickerson (APD 21) and was lost when that ship was destroyed in a kamikaze attack on April 2, 1945, off the coast of Okinawa. Fifty-three other officers and men were also killed.
From the Class of 1943's book "25 years later…": "Mack was born on 3 April, 1920 in Duluth, Minnesota He was appointed from Minnesota and entered the Acade my on 17 July, 1939. After graduation Mack went to a series of short schools in the Norfolk area and then to the high speed destroyer transport DICKERSON in the Pacific. In January 1944 the DICKERSON participated in the landings at Green Island off the Northwest tip of Bougainville. He participated in other amphibious operations as the allies moved North in the Pacific. While engaged in the second day of the mighty Okinawa invasion, April 2, 1945, the DICKERSON was hit by enemy fire which resulted in Mack's death. He wore the Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp and the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal with three bronze stars. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth Julia who at the time of Mack's death resided at 2123 Sussex Avenue, Duluth, Minnesota."
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