RB-47 co-pilot shot down and imprisoned by Soviets to be buried at Arlington

Fifty-seven years after he was shot down by the Soviet Union and later imprisoned for seven months, Bruce Olmstead will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Jul. 27. The former RB-47 co-pilot died last October.

By U.S. Air Force photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Olmstead was assigned to the 55th Wing when he had to eject from this stricken aircraft over the Arctic Ocean. Only he and the navigator John McKone survive the ejection.

A RC-135 from the 55th Wing will make a flyover during the burial.