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Irad Blair Oxley
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Rank
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy
Unit
172 FITRON
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Date of Death
October 16, 1951
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USNA Class of 1943, Lieutenant Commander Oxley was the pilot of a F2H-2 Banshee fighter with Fighter Squadron 172 aboard the carrier USS ESSEX (CV-9). On October 16, 1951, while on an armed reconnaissance flight, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire near Majon-ni, North Korea, crashed and exploded upon impact. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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