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Thomas Clarence Biesterveld
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Rank
Ensign, U.S. Navy
Unit
193 FITRON
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Date of Death
February 24, 1955
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Ensign Biesterveld was the pilot of a F4U-4 Corsair fighter with Fighter Squadron 193 aboard the aircraft carrier USS PRINCETON (CV-37). On April 29, 1951, while on a combat mission over North Korea, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire and he parachuted safely to the ground about four miles east of the Hwachon Reservoir. He was taken Prisoner of War and died while a prisoner on February 24, 1955. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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