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LTJG Baxter Hughes Cook
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LTJG Baxter Hughes Cook Veteran

Birth
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
9 Mar 1951 (aged 28)
North Korea
Monument
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
Plot
Courts of the Missing- US Navy- Korea
Memorial ID
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NOTE: The DOD listed is his official date of LOSS. He was never presumed dead afterwards.

Baxter was the pilot of a Corsair Night Fighter aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton. While on a combat mission, his plane plunged into the sea for unknown reasons and he was never seen again. His remains were never recovered.
NOTE: The DOD listed is his official date of LOSS. He was never presumed dead afterwards.

Baxter was the pilot of a Corsair Night Fighter aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton. While on a combat mission, his plane plunged into the sea for unknown reasons and he was never seen again. His remains were never recovered.

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LEIUTENANT (JG) - USN - TENNESSEE


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