KOREAN WAR PROJECT REMEMBRANCE

A2C Richard Dale Arnold

35th Fighter Bomber Squadron
Air Force
Non-hostile, Aircraft Crash
Date Of Loss: June 18, 1953
Service Number: AF17328216
Born: November 4, 1933
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Omaha, Nebraska
Location Or Battle Zone: Japan
Town Or Area: Tachikawa Air Base
Burial Location
Forrest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Ne

Comments: Airman Second Class Arnold was a member of the 35th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter Bomber Group. On June 18, 1953, he was a passenger on a C-124A Globemaster transport traveling from Tachikawa Air Base, Japan to Korea. He was killed when the aircraft crashed about three miles from Tachikawa.

Life Magazine - June 29, 1953
Worst Air Crash

One rain-filled afternoon last week a giant Air Force C-124 Globemaster lifted off the runway at Tachikawa airport near Tokyo and disappeared into the murk. The tower heard one brief radio message from the plane: "One engine dead; returning for G.C.A. landing." A few minutes later, in a flat spin, the C-124 crashed into a muddy farm field northeast of the airport. There were no survivors: the plane carried to death 129 persons, seven members of the crew and 122 servicemen returning to their units in Korea after leave in Japan. It was, by a margin of 42 deaths, the world's worst disaster in the history of aviation.

Husband of Mrs. Geraldine Arnold of Omaha, Nebraska.

Korean War Project Key No: 36718

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FORREST LAWN CEMETERY, OMAHA, NE

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