Rumsfeld Presses China on Fate of Pilot
During an official visit to Beijing last October, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld privately asked Chinese officials on the fate of a fellow Navy flier that was shot down by the Chinese in 1956.
Lt. James B. Deane Jr. was flying a Martin P4M-1Q Mercator with 15 other men when it was shot down over the East China Sea shortly after midnight Aug. 23, 1956.
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