USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Kinnick, Nile C. Jr.

Service Dates: Aboard USS Lexington during her shake-down cruise, 1943.

Rank/Duty Assigned: Ensign, Fighter Squadron 16, F4F-4 Wildcat. Forced water landing due to engine malfunction: Missing in Action, presumed dead 2 June 1943, Gulf of Paria off the coast of Venezuela.

(Killed in training accident 6/2/43)

Submitted by: UNKNOWN

Heisman Trophy winner, Walter Camp Trophy winner, unanimous First Team All-American, and Outstanding Male Athlete of the year (1939), University of Iowa. Phi Beta Kappa and Class President, University of Iowa. A hero perished but never forgotten.