Date Format in SQL Loader

Dear All,
I have a table CMS_HO where I have defined different columns. One column is of date type STATUS_DATE. I want to upload one ASCII file where one field is in the format like below:
5/26/2008 12:41
5/26/2008 8:51
5/28/2008 9:01
5/28/2008 13:54
5/13/2008 10:45
4/6/2008 9:21
I want to upload file into Oracle database. Currently I am using following control file:
LOAD DATA
INTO TABLE CMS_HO TRUNCATE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY "\t"
TRAILING NULLCOLS
( ID,EXPIRYDATE, VER, SN, STATUS_DATE)
There seems error in the STATUS_DATE field in control file. Can any one help how to modify this Control file so that data against this field can be uploaded into date format please?
Thanks

Here's an example i pulled from the web on specifying the date format in a control file.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb/oracle/or-load.html#loading%20date%20data
Based on the sample data you provided, i think this is the format you're after.
ME_XE?select
2 to_date('5/13/2008 10:45', 'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi') as date_value_24_hours
3 from dual;
DATE_VALUE_24_HOURS
13-MAY-2008 10 45:00
1 row selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.89

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