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John B. Hughes
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Rank
Sergeant, U.S. Army
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Date of Death
June 4, 1951
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Sergeant Hughes was a member of the 307th Military Police Battalion, U.S. Army. On June 4, 1951, he was a passenger on a C-119 Flying Boxcar transport assigned to Stewart Air Force Base, New York. The aircraft was on a routine training mission to Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, when it went out of control, accelerated to excessive speed and disintegrated killing 3 other servicemen near Jackson, Tennessee. |
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