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Calvin Kenneth Currens
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Rank
Captain, U.S. Marine Corps
Unit
323 MAR ATK SQ 12 MAR AIR GP
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Date of Death
July 3, 1951
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Captain Currens was the pilot of a F4U-4 Corsair fighter with the Marine Fighter Squadron 323, Marine Air Group 12, 1st Marine Air Wing, aboard the aircraft carrier USS SICILY (CVE-118). On July 3, 1951, while strafing enemy positions twelve miles southwest of Pyongyang, North Korea, his aircraft was struck by small arms fire and crashed into the river bottom. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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