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ENS Donald Edwin Adams

VF-74 Fighter Squadron
Navy
Hostile, Died (KIA)
Remains Not Recovered
Aircraft Type: F4U-4
Aircraft Number: 97372
Date Of Loss: August 14, 1952
Service Number: 505123
Born: December 26, 1929
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Appleton, Wisconsin
Location Or Battle Zone: North Korea
Town Or Area: Pukchang
Burial Location
Peabody Park Cemetery, Appleton, Wi

Comments: Ensign Adams was the pilot of a F4U Corsair fighter with Fighter Squadron 74, aboard the aircraft carrier BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31). On August 14, 1952, while on a strike mission in North Korea, his aircraft made a dive from 8,000 feet toward the target but failed to pull out of the dive, crashed and exploded.

DPAA: Ensign Donald Edwin Adams, who joined the U.S. Navy from Wisconsin, served with Fighter Squadron 74 embarked aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV 31). On August 14, 1952, piloting an F4-U Corsair (side number 1403) he departed the Bon Homme Richard on a strike mission against targets near Pukchong, North Korea. During a dive over the target, his aircraft crashed and burned. The exact cause of the crash is unknown. Witnesses reported that there was no sign of a parachute and that there was no chance the pilot could have survived the crash. Ensign Adams' remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire.

Husband of Mrs. Jacqueline L. Adams of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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APPLETON, WISCONSIN

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1929

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December 26, 1929

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PEABODY PARK CEMETERY, APPLETON, WI

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