Graduate of the United States Military Academy's Class of January 1943. Son of Janice Morrison Zettel and Lt R C Zettel. Received his wings on December 5, 1942 and commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps on January 19, 1943.
Killed in an airplane crash near Saluda, Virignia, while trying to get around a storm and was buried next to his father. His father served in the Air Corps during World War I and died in Manila when his plane turned over in the mud in Manila Bay.
Extracted from ASSEMBLY article originally published in April 1944, and located on the United States Military Academy Memorial Articles website.
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Following contributed by Thomas Ladner:
KILLED IN CRASH
LT. RAYMOND C. ZETTEL, son of Mrs. Janice Zettel of West Branch and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Zettel, of Gladwin, was instantly killed in an airplane accident at 5:45 p.m. last Tuesday while leading a squadron in flight near Saluda Virginia. Lt. Zettel had been stationed at Langley Field near Richmond, Virginia, and was enroute from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a new plane when the crash occurred.
His father, the late Lt. Raymond C. Zettel, was also killed in an airplane accident while making a forced landing in the Phillipine Islands on January 17, 1932. He had served as a fighter pilot during the first World War.
Lt. Zettel was born in the U.S. Base Hospital at Nogales, Arizona, on August 28, 1920. He was a graduate of the East Lansing High School; attended Michigan State College one year and was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he graduated on January 19th of this year. He was assigned to Luke Field, Arizona, for flying instruction in 1942; received his wings there on December 5th, and was commissioned a second lieutanent on May 19th of this year and was preparing to go overseas with a combat squadron when he was killed.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church in West Branch with the Rev. Eric J. Whiting officiating. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery in West Branch. Richard Zettel, of Gladwin, who left Monday to enter service as an aviation cadet with the U.S. Navy; served as a pall bearer at his cousin's funeral.
Source: Scrapbook owned by: John A. Capling (Newspaper Clippings 1900's) copies provided to John Capling from the GCHS Museum.
Killed in an airplane crash near Saluda, Virignia, while trying to get around a storm and was buried next to his father. His father served in the Air Corps during World War I and died in Manila when his plane turned over in the mud in Manila Bay.
Extracted from ASSEMBLY article originally published in April 1944, and located on the United States Military Academy Memorial Articles website.
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Following contributed by Thomas Ladner:
KILLED IN CRASH
LT. RAYMOND C. ZETTEL, son of Mrs. Janice Zettel of West Branch and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Zettel, of Gladwin, was instantly killed in an airplane accident at 5:45 p.m. last Tuesday while leading a squadron in flight near Saluda Virginia. Lt. Zettel had been stationed at Langley Field near Richmond, Virginia, and was enroute from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a new plane when the crash occurred.
His father, the late Lt. Raymond C. Zettel, was also killed in an airplane accident while making a forced landing in the Phillipine Islands on January 17, 1932. He had served as a fighter pilot during the first World War.
Lt. Zettel was born in the U.S. Base Hospital at Nogales, Arizona, on August 28, 1920. He was a graduate of the East Lansing High School; attended Michigan State College one year and was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he graduated on January 19th of this year. He was assigned to Luke Field, Arizona, for flying instruction in 1942; received his wings there on December 5th, and was commissioned a second lieutanent on May 19th of this year and was preparing to go overseas with a combat squadron when he was killed.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church in West Branch with the Rev. Eric J. Whiting officiating. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery in West Branch. Richard Zettel, of Gladwin, who left Monday to enter service as an aviation cadet with the U.S. Navy; served as a pall bearer at his cousin's funeral.
Source: Scrapbook owned by: John A. Capling (Newspaper Clippings 1900's) copies provided to John Capling from the GCHS Museum.
Graduate of the United States Military Academy's Class of January 1943. Son of Janice Morrison Zettel and Lt R C Zettel. Received his wings on December 5, 1942 and commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps on January 19, 1943.
Killed in an airplane crash near Saluda, Virignia, while trying to get around a storm and was buried next to his father. His father served in the Air Corps during World War I and died in Manila when his plane turned over in the mud in Manila Bay.
Extracted from ASSEMBLY article originally published in April 1944, and located on the United States Military Academy Memorial Articles website.
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Following contributed by Thomas Ladner:
KILLED IN CRASH
LT. RAYMOND C. ZETTEL, son of Mrs. Janice Zettel of West Branch and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Zettel, of Gladwin, was instantly killed in an airplane accident at 5:45 p.m. last Tuesday while leading a squadron in flight near Saluda Virginia. Lt. Zettel had been stationed at Langley Field near Richmond, Virginia, and was enroute from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a new plane when the crash occurred.
His father, the late Lt. Raymond C. Zettel, was also killed in an airplane accident while making a forced landing in the Phillipine Islands on January 17, 1932. He had served as a fighter pilot during the first World War.
Lt. Zettel was born in the U.S. Base Hospital at Nogales, Arizona, on August 28, 1920. He was a graduate of the East Lansing High School; attended Michigan State College one year and was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he graduated on January 19th of this year. He was assigned to Luke Field, Arizona, for flying instruction in 1942; received his wings there on December 5th, and was commissioned a second lieutanent on May 19th of this year and was preparing to go overseas with a combat squadron when he was killed.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church in West Branch with the Rev. Eric J. Whiting officiating. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery in West Branch. Richard Zettel, of Gladwin, who left Monday to enter service as an aviation cadet with the U.S. Navy; served as a pall bearer at his cousin's funeral.
Source: Scrapbook owned by: John A. Capling (Newspaper Clippings 1900's) copies provided to John Capling from the GCHS Museum.
Killed in an airplane crash near Saluda, Virignia, while trying to get around a storm and was buried next to his father. His father served in the Air Corps during World War I and died in Manila when his plane turned over in the mud in Manila Bay.
Extracted from ASSEMBLY article originally published in April 1944, and located on the United States Military Academy Memorial Articles website.
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Following contributed by Thomas Ladner:
KILLED IN CRASH
LT. RAYMOND C. ZETTEL, son of Mrs. Janice Zettel of West Branch and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Zettel, of Gladwin, was instantly killed in an airplane accident at 5:45 p.m. last Tuesday while leading a squadron in flight near Saluda Virginia. Lt. Zettel had been stationed at Langley Field near Richmond, Virginia, and was enroute from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with a new plane when the crash occurred.
His father, the late Lt. Raymond C. Zettel, was also killed in an airplane accident while making a forced landing in the Phillipine Islands on January 17, 1932. He had served as a fighter pilot during the first World War.
Lt. Zettel was born in the U.S. Base Hospital at Nogales, Arizona, on August 28, 1920. He was a graduate of the East Lansing High School; attended Michigan State College one year and was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he graduated on January 19th of this year. He was assigned to Luke Field, Arizona, for flying instruction in 1942; received his wings there on December 5th, and was commissioned a second lieutanent on May 19th of this year and was preparing to go overseas with a combat squadron when he was killed.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Trinity Episcopal Church in West Branch with the Rev. Eric J. Whiting officiating. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery in West Branch. Richard Zettel, of Gladwin, who left Monday to enter service as an aviation cadet with the U.S. Navy; served as a pall bearer at his cousin's funeral.
Source: Scrapbook owned by: John A. Capling (Newspaper Clippings 1900's) copies provided to John Capling from the GCHS Museum.
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