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Keith Edward Thomson
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Rank
Ensign, U.S. Navy
Unit
53 FITRON
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Date of Death
January 22, 1954
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Ensign Thomson was the pilot of a F4U-4B Corsair fighter bomber with Fighter Squadron 53 aboard the aircraft carrier, USS VALLEY FORGE (CV-45). On July 25, 1950, He was forced down by enemy anti-aircraft fire along the front lines 15 miles northeast of Posong, South Korea. He was taken Prisoner of War, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on January 22, 1954. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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