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Edward Patrick Cummings
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Rank
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
Unit
33 COMPRON
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Date of Death
July 11, 1952
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Lieutenant Cummings was the pilot of an AD-3Q Skyraider dive bomber with Detachment 41, Composite Squadron 33 aboard the aircraft carrier USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31). On July 11, 1952, his aircraft was diving at a target at Pyongyang, North Korea, when it was hit by anti-aircraft fire. It lost part of its tail surface and crashed about a mile away near Pyongyang. He was presumed dead on May 25, 1954. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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