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Maj. Earl DeMers
SOP" as a guard against any possible future disaster.
“Air facilities charts were being clarified and prepared for wider distribution covering all ‘K-type’ fields in Korea," according to the report
On Sept. 15, Marine Corps chaplains conducted memorial services at K-3 for the four Protestant and two Catholic pilots of VMF-115 who were lost.
As soon as the weather permitted, regular combat flight operations were resumed, as they had to be.
But for the families.of the crash victims, the suffering had just begun.
Requiem, remembrance
Don DeMers, younger brother of Maj. R. Earl DeMers, was serving in the U.S. Navy on board the USS Pine Island (AV-12) on the voyage back from Korea when he received the news of his brother’s death.
“Being in the Navy, I was permitted to escort my brother’s remains to our home in Genesee, Idaho, where Earl is buried beside our late father and mother,” said DeMers, who now lives in Washington state.
“It was a very sad duty, especially presenting the flag to our father at the conclusion of the military funeral,” he said.
George Banks reflected on the men lost on Sept. 10, 1952, and the other men of his squadron who died in the Korean War.
“I was a young officer of the next generation, and the men I served with in the Marine Corps were my boyhood heroes,” said Banks.
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