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Jonathan J. Golden, age 33, from Camarillo, California.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 39th Airlift Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
Date of death: Friday, October 2, 2015
Death details: died Oct. 2 in the crash of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft at Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Victor Galvan Corona, age 21, from Ventura County Camarillo, California .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, July 22, 1952
Death details: On July 22, 1952, a B-26C Invader (tail number 44-35887A, call sign Richman 88) departed departed Pusan East Air Base with four aviators on board. The briefed mission was a night interdiction operation targeting a crossroads near Changyon, Korea. Richman 88 reached the target area without incident. After dropping their payload, the pilot radioed another Invader in the target area, Richmond 82, requesting a bomb-report. After receiving a positive report, Richmond 88 radioed that he was leaving the target area. However, “Richman 88” never returned to Pusan East Air Base. All four crew members remain unaccounted-for. Airman First Class Victor Galvan Corona entered the U.S. Air Force from California and was assigned to the 34th Bombardment Squadron, 17th Bombardment Wing. He was a gunners aboard “Richman 88” when it was lost. No returning POWs mentioned contact with A1C Corona, nor was he seen at any known holding point, interrogation center, hospital, or permanent POW camp. He remains unaccounted-for. Today, Airman First Class Corona is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1954)