Lewis Metcalfe WALLING, Jr.

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Together We Served.com: Last Known Activity - 2nd Lt. Walling was aboard an SC-47 on a leaflet-dropping mission that crashed in Vic Bao Mountains while under hostile fire. He was one of nine crew and Army advisors on board.

The following anonymous narrative was posted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website on Sunday, November 21, 1999:

"On 11 February 1962 Lewis Walling boarded a USAF C-47 aircraft. The mission was to drop leaflets with a New Year's message from President Kennedy over the high plateau area of central Vietnam. Lewis, who had a hand in translating the messages and eager to travel to the highlands, volunteered to accompany the flight. As the aircraft swept low near the village of Blao, a concealed enemy force opened fire. The plane was struck by small arms fire and crashed in the mountains southwest of the village. A joint US/Vietnamese rescue team was sent to the crash site. The bodies of Lewis Walling, six U.S. Air Force personnel and two Vietnamese were located at the site of the C-47 crash."

Those men included the following:
2 unknown South Vietnamese Air Force personnel
U.S. Army Personnel:
2nd Lt. Lewis Walling
Sp4 Gen Merrihew
6 USAF Personnel:
Capt. Edward Kissam
Capt. Joseph Fahey
1st Lt. Jack Le Tourneau
1st Lt Stanley Hartson
TSgt Floyd Frazier
A1C Robert Westfall
Source: heep://www.vvmf.org/thewall

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Ancestry.com: Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) Obituaries, 1993-99 -

L. Metcalf Walling, a New Dealer to whom fell the thorny task of administering and enforcing novel concepts such a the minimum wage in wartime, died on Tuesday at the Gifford Elder Care center in Randolph, Vermont. He was 88 and had lived in Randolph Center, Vt., after a second career overseas.
Mr. Walling was a close aide to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, whose opponents despised her liberal inclinations as much as they resented her presence as the first woman in the Cabinet.
Mr. Walling joined her at Labor in 1938 as administrator of the Division of Public Contracts. His section merged with the Wage and Hour Division and he remained in charge until 1947 as his office gathered powers - and lawsuits, most of them derailed by the federal judiciary. The principal Roosevelt-era laws he worked under were the Walsh-Healey Act, which established labor standards for government contracts, and the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wage-and=Hour Law, which applied those standards in an often balky private sector. Mr. Walling dealt with such matters as a national minimum wage 9then 40 cents an hour and by no means universal), the work week, overtime payments and health and safety in the workplace. The laws and his rulings were challenged on constitutional grounds and with protests that extra pay for overtime was the bane of war production.
But when he left office, Mr. Walling noted that the wage-hour provisions, born amid controversy, had won general acceptance. They had become, he declared, part of a "broad humanitarian program" and a long-term fact of the country's economic life.
Lewis Metcalf Walling was born in Union Village, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Andover Academy and Brown University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1933. He was the Commissioner of Labor in Rhode Island when Secretary Perkins recruited him.
In the 1950's the United Nations sent Mr. Walling to Guatemala to rewrite its labor laws, and he headed U.S. aid missions in Cambodia and Colombia. He then worked for the bauxite industry and finally undertook missions for the International Executive Service Corps in West Africa and Tunisia.
He had a lifelong interest in the Waldorf School and anthroposophy movements founded by Rudolf Steiner, the German occultist and social philosopher. His readings with the anthroposophy, community in Vermont as a young man led to his devotion to the welfare of working people.
He was chairman of the first American Waldorf School in New York City and remained a member of the board of the Waldorf School Educational Foundation of North America until 1994.
Mr. Walling's first wife, the former Frances Slosson Holliday, drowned in a flash flood in Tunisia in 1972. His second wife Sydney Parker, died in 1996. An elder son, Lewis Jr., died in Vietnam in 1962.
He is survived by a son, Alexander R.H., of manhattan; a stepdaughter, Judith Parker of Philadelphia; a stepson, Jameson Parker, a film and television actor in California, and a granddaughter.

Lewis married Frances Slosson HOLLIDAY. Frances (daughter of Alexander Rieman HOLLIDAY and Agnes SLOSSON) was born about 1911 in Indiana, USA; died on 07 Oct 1972 in El Djem, Tunisia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1920, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana
• Census: 1930, Living with parents in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana

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Ancestry.com - Historical Newspapers; Birth, Marriages & death Announcements, 1851-2003 - New York -

MEMORIAL SERVICE TODAY FOR MRS. METCALFE WALLING

A memorial service will be held at 7:30 P.M. today at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Bedford, New York for Mrs. Frances Slosson Holliday Walling, the wife of L. Metcalfe Walling, director for North Africa of the International Executive Service Corps.
Mrs. Walling drowned in a flash flood in El Djem, Tunisia, Oct. 7. She and her husband had been traveling with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R.H. Walling. Mrs. Metcalfe Walling, who was 62 years old, was the only victim.
Mrs. Walling, a graduate of Smith College, in recent years had been in charge of the American Field Service program for exchange students in Ghana and earlier had represented The Associated Press and The United Press in Guinea.
Besides her husband and son, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Warman Welliver, and a brother, Alexander R. Holliday. An older son, Lewis Metcalfe Walling Jr., was killed in Vietnam in 1962.