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On November 22, 1952 Major Charles Loring led a flight of four F-80s on an air support mission over North Korea. It was his 51st mission in Korea, for a total of 106 combat missions in two different wars, in two different decades, on two different continents, and it would be his last. His jet was hit by a shower of anti-aircraft fire during that last raid on Sniper Ridge. But he refused to break off his attack, nor would he bail out and risk capture. Realizing the plane wouldn’t make it back to friendly territory, Major Loring deliberately altered his course and aimed his crippled aircraft at the gun emplacements that had pinned down the American infantry for weeks, plunging 4,000 feet into a nest of enemy artillery. This sacrifice of his own life eliminated a dangerous threat to the United Nations ground forces. For his conspicuous gallantry in action on that day he was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was 34-years old.

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