Maj Thomas Florian Kozak

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Maj Thomas Florian Kozak

Birth
Death
Mar 1966 (aged 36)
Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Burial
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 35, Grave 3854
Memorial ID
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Kozak, Thomas F.
Date: Mar 4 1966
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #126.
Notes: During the Korean War, Thomas F. Kozak, an Air Force pilot, flew 100 combat missions. His many decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross. He had been under orders to go to Vietnam, and had been sharpening up his gunnery capability at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He was killed in a crash. The 37-year-old fighter pilot is survived by a wife, two children, his father, Sam, of 3113 Ruby Ave., and three sisters. Maj. Kozak was a native of Cleveland. Son of Maria and Samuel (Szymon) Casimir Kozak.


Kozak, Thomas F.
Date: Mar 4 1966
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #126.
Notes: During the Korean War, Thomas F. Kozak, an Air Force pilot, flew 100 combat missions. His many decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross. He had been under orders to go to Vietnam, and had been sharpening up his gunnery capability at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He was killed in a crash. The 37-year-old fighter pilot is survived by a wife, two children, his father, Sam, of 3113 Ruby Ave., and three sisters. Maj. Kozak was a native of Cleveland. Son of Maria and Samuel (Szymon) Casimir Kozak.