Korean War Hero returns to N. Korea in search of the remains of his lost Wingman

Korean War hero Thomas J. Hudner Jr. of Concord was unable to reach the wreckage of his lost wingman in North Korea last week, but he did secure a pledge from the country’s reclusive regime to help the US military search for the remains of some of the nearly 8,000 military personnel still unaccounted for from the conflict. 

Hudner, 88, madeheadlines when he traveled to North Korea hoping to find the remains of Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the Navy’s first African-American pilot, who was lost during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir on Dec. 4, 1950.

However, heavy floods prevented Hudner and a team of specialists from reaching the suspected crash site. 

Yet Hudner did not return completely empty-handed. Top North Korean officials told him they would be willing to cooperate with the US military’s efforts to learn the fate of those missing in action from the 1950-53 war, he said.

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Hudner was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1951 for deliberately crash-landing his own plane in an attempt to rescue Brown from the burning wreckage of his downed fighter. Chinese forces closed in before he could free Brown.

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