Korean War mystery solved after 53 years

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 28, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Bu Jim Yardley
International Herald Tribune
02-28-2005
He was a handsome Air Force pilot who painted his wife's nickname, Rosie, on the nose of his fighter jet, but whose disappearance during the Korean War left his family grappling with questions for half a century. Whatever happened to the pilot, Captain Troy Gordon Cope, after he was shot down in a dogfight above the China-North Korea border? Had he been captured alive and taken with other downed U.S. pilots to a Russian gulag? Was he still alive? The U.S. government finally provided an answer on Saturday, when a Pentagon official in ...

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