LCDR Donald Gordon Jackson, 34, of the NATC, Patuxent River, Md., who was killed on October 6 in a plane crash on the Eastern Shore, was buried with full military honors at Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday, October 11.
His plane crashed near Hebron, Md. after a mid-air collision with another jet fighter piloted by Lt. Valentine H. Schaeffer, Jr. Lt. Schaeffer parachuted to safety.
The two aircraft crashed to the ground about two miles apart. Both pilots were attached to the Armament Test Division.
LCDR Jackson was a graduate of the Bullis School in Washington. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944.
He served on the Battleship USS North Carolina during the world war and spent two combat tours in Korea. He was a graduate of the Test Pilot Training School at Patuxent River.
His plane crashed near Hebron, Md. after a mid-air collision with another jet fighter piloted by Lt. Valentine H. Schaeffer, Jr. Lt. Schaeffer parachuted to safety.
The two aircraft crashed to the ground about two miles apart. Both pilots were attached to the Armament Test Division.
LCDR Jackson was a graduate of the Bullis School in Washington. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944.
He served on the Battleship USS North Carolina during the world war and spent two combat tours in Korea. He was a graduate of the Test Pilot Training School at Patuxent River.
LCDR Donald Gordon Jackson, 34, of the NATC, Patuxent River, Md., who was killed on October 6 in a plane crash on the Eastern Shore, was buried with full military honors at Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday, October 11.
His plane crashed near Hebron, Md. after a mid-air collision with another jet fighter piloted by Lt. Valentine H. Schaeffer, Jr. Lt. Schaeffer parachuted to safety.
The two aircraft crashed to the ground about two miles apart. Both pilots were attached to the Armament Test Division.
LCDR Jackson was a graduate of the Bullis School in Washington. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944.
He served on the Battleship USS North Carolina during the world war and spent two combat tours in Korea. He was a graduate of the Test Pilot Training School at Patuxent River.
His plane crashed near Hebron, Md. after a mid-air collision with another jet fighter piloted by Lt. Valentine H. Schaeffer, Jr. Lt. Schaeffer parachuted to safety.
The two aircraft crashed to the ground about two miles apart. Both pilots were attached to the Armament Test Division.
LCDR Jackson was a graduate of the Bullis School in Washington. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944.
He served on the Battleship USS North Carolina during the world war and spent two combat tours in Korea. He was a graduate of the Test Pilot Training School at Patuxent River.
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