Oscar Randolph Fladmark, Jr.
Oscar Randolph Fladmark was an American fighter pilot who flew 164 noinjury combat missions in World War II and the Korean War. Fladmark received the Distinguished Flying Cross during his military career. Just a few years after the Korean War, Major Fladmark, atyears of age, was in an automobile accident near Yuma, Arizona on July 27, 1955 and died while being flown to the San Diego Naval Hospital.
Fladmark was born in Moe Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota on June 23, 1922. His father, Oscar C. Fladmark, Sr. , came from Alesund, Norway, located on the western coastal fjord region of the country, and had moved to South Dakota in 1907. His mother, Pethryn Hanson was also of Scandinavian descent and came from Hudson, South Dakota. He had one younger sibling, Lorentz W. Fladmark .
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