Ralph Bisz
3/28/42 - 8/4/67

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MIAMI HERALD On Aug. 4, 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ralph "Skip" Bisz Jr., a Miami Shores 25-year-old, roared off the deck of the USS Oriskany in his A-4E Skyhawk toward the North Vietnamese city of Haiphong.

He was headed for an ammo dump, but somewhere near the town of Hai Duong a surface-to-air missile blew his single-seat bomber out of the sky. Three other pilots saw the crash but never saw a parachute or heard an emergency-chute beeper.

On Oct. 6, 2008, the remains of Skip Bisz -- one-time Edison High School drum major and University of Florida student -- were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors.

The remains were repatriated to the United States in 1988, in a shipment of 17 boxes. But they weren't positively identified until 2007 -- 30 years after the Navy declared Skip Bisz dead..
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