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Lester Keith Sweat
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Rank
First Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force
Unit
522 FTR ESCORT SQ 27 FTR ESCORT GP
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Date of Death
June 1, 1951
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First Lieutenant Sweat was the pilot of a F-84E Thunderjet fighter with the 522nd Fighter-Escort Squadron, 27th Fighter-Escort Wing. On June 1, 1951, while on a combat mission of dropping napalm near Mundung-ni, North Korea, his aircraft crashed into a hillside. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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