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James Joseph Ashford
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Rank
Lieutenant Junior Grade, U.S. Navy
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Date of Death
September 4, 1951
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Ashford a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a was the pilot of a F9F-2 Panther Jet fighter with Fighter Squadron 51 aboard the carrier USS ESSEX (CV-9). On September 4, 1951, while on a making a run on a truck near Sinp'yong, his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed five and a half miles north northwest of Sinp'yong, North Korea. |
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