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Ernest
Cook
Dunning
Jr.
POW (Korea)

Home:

Clayton

, 

New Jersey

Ernest Dunning graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1950. He retired as a U.S. Air Force Colonel.

Awards Received

  • Prisoner of War Medal

    Service:

    United States Air Force

    Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

    Batallion:

    8th Fighter-Bomber Squadron

    Regiment:

    49th Fighter-Bomber Group

    Division:

    Prisoner of War (North Korea)

    Action Date:

    June 24, 1951 – September 4, 1953
    NARA Database: Repatriated Korean Conflict Prisoners of War, 7/5/1950 – 10/6/1954

    Second Lieutenant Ernest Cook Dunning, Jr. (AFSN: 0-20174), United States Air Force, was captured by communist forces after he was shot down over North Korea on 24 June 1951, and was held as a Prisoner of War until his release on 4 September 1953, during Operation Big Switch at the end of the war.