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Charles Joseph Loring Jr. (October 2, 1918 – November 22, 1952) was a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and later in the United States Air Force in the Korean War. Loring rose to the rank of major and posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on November 22, 1952, above Kunwha, Korea ...
Charles J. Loring, Jr. † Air Force: Major: Sniper Ridge, Kumhwa, North Korea: November 22, 1952: 80th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing Sacrificed his life by diving his damaged airplane into enemy gun emplacements —
Block 28 Republic P-47Ds of the 22d Fighter Squadron at Kingsnorth Airfield, England, 1944. Serials 44-20211 and 44-19864 identifiable. Aircraft 864 was lost to ground fire on Christmas Eve of that year with LT Charles J. Loring, Jr. at the controls, and he became a POW. During the Korean War, Loring was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Curtain Closes on Loring With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Loring lost its strategic importance, and in 1991, the Department of Defense selected it for the second round of major BRAC cuts ...
The Loring Military Heritage Center, near Limestone, Maine and named for pilot Charles J. Loring, Jr., was founded in 2005 by prior service military personnel and civilians who lived in the area. The museum was founded to preserve the rich history of the base, and the memories of the people who served there.
Loring AFB was carved out of the woods of Maine beginning in the late forties and officially dedicated in 1953, named after Charles J. Loring, Jr., who was killed in the Korean War. The closest Air Force base on the east coast to Europe, it was originally built with a capacity of 100 B-36 Peacemaker bombers and equipped with a 10,000-foot ...
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Charles Greely Loring (lawyer) (1794–1867), American lawyer and politician based in Boston, father of the Civil War general Charles Harding Loring (1828–1907), American mechanical engineer Charles J. Loring Jr. (1918–1952), United States Air Force officer and Medal of Honor recipient