Korean War wall of names is said to be riddled with errors, omissions.
on the memorial in Washington. Angell was killed at age 24 when his Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down on Jan. 18, 1953, off the coast of China.
He says he believes that more than 400 names have been wrongly left off the wall. He says there are names on the wall of men who survived. He says there are about 1,000 spelling errors. Her grandfather, a machinist mate on the plane, was from Huntsville in northwest Arkansas. He was married and had two daughters, one of whom was Mumley’s mother. She was 9 when her father died.
Marx said her mother, Gerry, met her first husband, Dwight Angell, when both were in college at what is now Colorado State University. He enlisted in the Navy Reserve in college and then went to flight school.Eight months later, he was missing in action. His body was never recovered. Barker said, for example, that one file in the National Archives lists Angell and Smith, and others on their plane, as Korean War casualties. Other files do not, he said.
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