Air Force pilot Lt. Alvin Crane has been missing since his T-6F took off from Camp K-47 in Korea on Sept. 13, 1951—a mission that ended with North Korean forces shooting down the aircraft. The remains of his co-pilot—Sgt. Gordon Zorn—were found a year later, according to the Hernando Today newspaper, but it would be more than 30 years later before other remains were discovered. A lengthy identification process ensured and DNA results finally confirmed the remains were those of Crane.
In the face of Chinese war plans to disrupt U.S. command-and-control networks in the event of a conflict, the Air Force needs to focus less on its “connect everything” efforts and prepare its combat aviators to fight without a constant connection to higher-ups, according to a new report from AFA’s…
