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Channing Gardner
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Rank
Lieutenant Junior Grade, U.S. Navy
Unit
653 FITRON
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Date of Death
May 29, 1952
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Gardner was the pilot of a F4U-4 Corsair fighter with Fighter Squadron 653 aboard the aircraft carrier USS VALLEY FORGE (CV-45). On May 29, 1952, during takeoff on a combat mission, his aircraft crashed into the sea. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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