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Adrian Leonard Christenson
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Rank
Captain, U.S. Air Force
Unit
16 FTR INTCP SQ 51 FTR INTCP GP
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Date of Death
May 13, 1951
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Captain Christenson was the pilot of a F-80C Shooting Star fighter interceptor with the 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Group. On May 13, 1951, while on a combat mission, his aircraft received a direct hit by anti-aircraft fire, it's engine quit and the plane crashed 20 miles northeast of Hwachon Reservoir, North Korea. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on December 31, 1953. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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