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Missing WWII aviator receives honors in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The nation's highest-ranking military officer listed as missing in action is receiving honors in his birth state of New Mexico more than 70 years after he mysteriously disappeared.

The city of Roswell hosted a series of events for Brig. Gen. Kenneth Walker, an officer who helped create an air plan to defeat Hitler in World War II.

Walker and his crew from California, New York and Texas went missing after a mission over eastern New Britain Province, New Guinea, in January 1943. Their remains were never found.

The now-closed air base in Roswell was later renamed after Walker in 1948.

Walker's son, Douglas Walker of New Canaan, Connecticut, was in Roswell for the dedication of a new Walker Air Force Base historical marker.

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