Jack Bradway kisses his son, Don Bradway, at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in southern California. Jack Bradway shipped out for the Korean War shortly afterward and died over North Korea when his plane crashed in September 1951.May 20, 2013 - Hayden resident Don Bradway's father was on a night intruder mission when his Corsair fighter-bomber went down in the midst of the Korean War.
"He was in North Korea and he was making a bombing run on a truck convoy," Don Bradway said Saturday. "He was in an area that was known to be completely enemy territory."
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Judson Jack Bradway, a pilot from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in southern California, had been in Korea for months before his plane went down on Sept. 20, 1951. He was 29.
snip Sledge said that, combined, there are more than 83,000 American servicemen missing in action from the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Cold War and World War II.
The department does about six to eight of the regional events each year, and it's been several years since one was conducted in Spokane.
The department has done monthly updates since 1995, reaching more than 14,000 family members in face-to-face meetings.
Don Bradway said he knows that if U.S. military officials ever receive cooperation from the North Korean government an effort will be made to recover his father's remains.
"I just pray that it will be in my lifetime," he said. "Given the circumstances in North Korea right now, they may never get in there." read more>>>
Monday, May 20, 2013
Family members of missing military servicemen get status updates
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