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NAME Charles Edward Parker |
NICKNAME — |
SERVICE NUMBER O-4950 |
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| UNIT HQ Squadron 1st Marine Air Wing Pilot |
HOME OF RECORD Fairfax, VA |
NEXT OF KIN Wife, Mrs. Ruth Helen Parker |
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| DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1904 at Tulsa, OK |
ENTERED SERVICE March 9, 1934 (commissioned) at Washington, DC |
DATE OF LOSS April 30, 1943 |
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| REGION Solomon Islands |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Guadalcanal |
CASUALTY TYPE Missing In Action Declared Dead May 1, 1944 |
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS On 30 April 1943, Major Parker failed to return from one such a flight out of Henderson Field. Other Marine pilots reported seeing his plane crash into the sea; no further details about the cause of the mishap were known. Parker was declared dead on 1 May 1944. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Bronze Star, Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Major (posthumous Lieutenant Colonel) |
STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered. |
MEMORIALS Manila American Cemetery |
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