★★★ Memorial Monday ★★★
1LT Alan "Duke" McAneny, USMC '52 was lost this date (June 28) in 1955 when his FJ-2 Fury fighter crashed in Japan, while participating in a search and rescue operation for two other Marines who had been drifting at sea for several days.
A prior enlisted Marine, he had also attended Hamilton College for a year prior to the Naval Academy. In the Lucky Bag: "Battles with a smoking slide rule, a broken parallel ruler, and memorizing the terms in the "Treaty of Smoltz" were the Duke's specialties. Large stacks of perfumed letters best described the Duke's success with the fairer sex." While a Midshipman, he ran track and played battalion football.
Alan was survived by his wife and mother.
To Honor! ⚓
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