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    Remains of MIA Pilot Recovered

    Oct 02, 2018 3 minutes

    The remains of an Air Force pilot shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 have been identified as those of Fredric M. Mellor, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in August.

    Mellor, at the time a 30-year-old captain from Cranston, Rhode Island, took off from Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base on Aug. 13, 1965, in the lead aircraft of two McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo jets on a photo reconnaissance mission over

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