Richard Bakke – Major, United States Air Force

He was a navigator in the ill-fated Iran hostage rescue attempt on April 25, 1980. He was killed when two of the planes used in the mission collided in the desert in Iran.

He is buried in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery with two other crewmembers, Harold Lewis and Joel Mayo, as they were individually unidentifiable.

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