Upstate Air Force veteran killed during Cuban Missile Crisis honored on 63-year anniversary

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – An Air Force pilot who was killed during the Cuban Missile Crisis will be honored today on the 63-year anniversary of his death.

On October 27, 1962, Maj. Rudolf Anderson was shot down by enemy fire near Cuba.

Anderson was a 1948 graduate of Clemson University and a Greenville native…

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