Korean War
Service # | 11709A |
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Rank | Captain U.S. Air Force |
Date of Death | August 13 1951 |
National Defense Service Medal
Captain Dews was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
Notes
Captain Dews was a member of Headquarters Squadron, Weapons Development Group, Air Material Command stationed at Seattle, Washington. On August 13, 1951, he served as the radar observer on a B-50D bomber receiving a routine acceptance flight. The aircraft crashed into an apartment complex near Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, killing the three servicemen and three Boeing technicians on board and five civilians on the ground.