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Glen Howard Rickelton
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Rank
Ensign, U.S. Navy
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Date of Death
January 6, 1952
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Ensign Rickelton was the pilot of a F9F-2 Panther Jet fighter with Fighter Squadron 51 aboard the aircraft carrier USS ESSEX (CV-9). On January 6, 1952, he was flying his 50th mission, a strafing run, when his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire, crashed and exploded about seven miles north of Kowan, Korea. |
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