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Edward Leo Frakes
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Rank
First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps
Unit
311 MAR FTR SQ 33 MAR AIR GP
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Date of Death
October 3, 1951
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First Lieutenant Frakes was the pilot of a F9F-2B Panther Jet fighter with the Marine Fighter Squadron 311, Marine Air Group 33, 1st Marine Air Wing. On October 3, 1951, while on a combat mission 35 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korea, his aircraft received a direct hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed. He tried to make a low-altitude bailout but failed. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on December 15, 1953. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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