Vietnam War Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of KENT LEE
LEE Kent Liston Lee Vice Admiral, USN (ret.) Died August 11, 2017. He was born July 28, 1923, one of six children, on a small farm in South Carolina. He enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and served as an aviation mechanic, beginning a 36-year naval career. Selected for the Aviation Cadet (V5) Program, he was commissioned an Ensign and became a naval aviator in 1943. Lee saw flight combat with both bomber and fighter squadrons during WWII and the Korean War. He then studied at Columbia University...
