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Vincent C. Cardarella
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force
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Date of Death
August 1, 1950
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Lieutenant Colonel Cardarella was the pilot of a F-80C Shooting Star fighter-interceptor with the 35th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter Bomber Group. On August 1, 1950, while on a combat mission along the road from Chochiwon to Chonan, South Korea, his aircraft struck a cable strung between two mountains and crashed five miles southeast of Chonui. |
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