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CPT James Benjamin Brown

VMF(N)-513 - Marine Night Fighter Squadron 513
Marines
Hostile, Died While Missing (MIA)
Remains Not Recovered
Aircraft Type: F3D-2
Aircraft Number: 127024
Date Of Loss: May 30, 1953
Service Number: 028801
Born: June 11, 1921
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Tribbey, Oklahoma
Location Or Battle Zone: South Korea
Town Or Area: Near Kunsan Airfield K-3

Comments: Captain Brown was the pilot of a Douglas F3D-2 Skynight fighter with the Marine All Weather Fighter Squadron 513, Marine Air Group 12, 1st Marine Air Wing. On May 30, 1953, while returning from escorting B-29's on a night mission near the mouth of the Yalu River, North Korea, contact with the aircraft was lost after requesting landing instructions from Kunsan Airfield (K-8).

Historical Reports - PDF page 63.

Husband of Dorothy Rumple Brown of Richmond, Virginia.

Final Disposition Date: June 15, 1954
Korean War Project Key No: 3480

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