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Benjamin Neale Rader
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Rank
Captain, U.S. Air Force
Unit
8 TAC RCN SQ 543 TAC SPT GP
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Date of Death
October 20, 1950
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Captain Rader was the pilot of a RF-80A Lockheed Shooting Star photo reconnaissance aircraft with the 8th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 543rd Tactical Support Group. On October 20, 1950, while on a reconnaissance mission twenty miles south of Pyongyang, North Korea, contact with his aircraft was lost. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on December 31, 1953. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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