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Richard C. Briggs
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Rank
First Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force
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Date of Death
April 14, 1951
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First Lieutenant Briggs was the pilot of a F-80C Shooting Star fighter-interceptor with the 35th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter Bomber Group. On April 14, 1951, while on a combat mission, his engine flamed out and the aircraft crashed at the north end of the runway at Itazuke Air Base, Japan. |
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