“We have several thousand interactive webpages that allow visitors for the last 20 years to input stories, photos and other information,” Barker said in a Sept. But in Dallas, a pair of brothers have for decades worked to help veterans' families connect the dots and find missing links. Hal Barker founded the Korean War Project in 1995 with his brother, and continues to help maintain the website's extensive database. Jim was one out of over 7,800 Americans who served in the Korean War (1950-1953) and still remain unaccounted for. Their last meeting before Jim's plane crashed in April 1952 was on the general's birthday in March that year. James Van Fleet," Barondes said. “Jim is memorialized on his parents’ gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery."Ĭapt. “Losing Jim was particularly personal for his father, Gen. “He was listed as Missing in Action on March 31, 1954." His remains were never recovered. “While on a night intruder mission, Van Fleet Jr.’s aircraft crashed near Haeju, North Korea,” Barondes said of the captain's April 5 disappearance. Van Fleet flew out on a night mission, his fourth combat mission during the war. The war raged on however, and next month Capt. Though the father and the son could only meet infrequently during the war, special occasions like the general's birthday created rare opportunities for them to reunite. The younger Van Fleet was a pilot, assigned a mission to invade the enemy's territory and attack any lights or gunfire that they could identify. 8th Army in Korea from April 1951 to February 1953.
Van Fleet, also a member of the USMA class of 1948, was the son of Gen. " James Van Fleet was a B-26B Invader pilot in the 13th Bomber Squadron, 3rd Bomber Group, at Kunsan Air Base," Arthur Barondes, a member of the class of 1948 at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and president of the association of the class, wrote to the Korea JoongAng Daily on Oct. James Van Fleet celebrated his 60th birthday in Korea in March 1952, he didn't know it would be the last time he'd see his only son.
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