Brigadier General Alan P. Lurie POW 1966 – 1973 Name: Alan Pierce Lurie Rank/Branch: O4/United States Air Force, pilot Unit: 480th TFS Date of Birth: March 1933 Home City of Record: Cleveland OH Date of Loss: 13 June 1966 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 173800 North 1062200 East Status (in 1973): Returnee Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:…
LtCol Hubert K. Flesher POW 1966 – 1973 Name: Hubert Kelly Flesher Rank/Branch: O4/United States Air Force, pilot Unit: 480th TFS Home City of Record: Clarksburg WV Date of Loss: 02 December 1966 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 212000N 1055400E Status (in 1973): Returnee Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #0753 Incident No: 0534 Other Personnel in…
Major Joseph Crecca Jr. POW 1966 – 1973 Name: Joseph Crecca Rank/Branch: O2/United States Air Force Unit: 480th TFS Date of Birth: 23 October 1940 Home City of Record: Bloomfield NJ Date of Loss: 22 November 1966 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 213000 N 1054200 E Status (in 1973): Returnee Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C Missions:…
LtCol James R. Berger POW 1966 – 1973 Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force Unit: 480th TFS Date of Birth: 06 November 1938 Home City of Record: Mansfield OH Date of Loss: 02 December 1966 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 212000N 1055400E Status (in 1973): Returnee Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #0753 Incident No: 0534 Missions: 30…
Colonel William J. Baugh 17 July 1934 – 19 February 2010 Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force Unit: 480th TFS Date of Birth: 17 July 1934 Home City of Record: Piqua OH Date of Loss: 21 January 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 213600N 1062800E Status (in 1973): Returnee Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C, #0810 Incident No:…
Colonel William J. Baugh 17 July 1934 – 19 February 2010 On November 17, 1996, Col (RET) William Baugh provided the P.O.W. NETWORK with this biography: I was born on 17 July 1934 in Piqua, Ohio. I graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1956, with an Air Force ROTC Commission as a…
1st Lt James Lindsay Badley 18 October 1942 – ???? On 27 March 1968, then 2nd Lt. James L. Badley and Captain Richard L. Whitteker, both of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron, departed Danang Air Base on a strike mission into North Vietnam. Jim Badley did not return from his 85th mission – their F-4D…
Major Gerald Oak Alfred Jr. 18 October 1942 – ???? On December 11, 1966, then 1st. Lt. Gerald Oak Alfred Jr. was flying backseater to Capt. Jerry Woodcock in an F4C on an armed reconnaissance mission near the DMZ when the aircraft was hit by hostile fire.The U.S.S. Keppler (DD-765) was operating in the coastal…
Captain Lance Peter Sijan 13 April 1942 – 22 January 1968 On the night of 09 Nov 1967, then LtCol John Armstrong, commander of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron based at Da Nang, South Vietnam, and Weapons System Officer Capt Lance P. Sijan were tasked with a bombing mission in the Ho Chi Minh Trail…
Colonel John William Armstrong 5 December 1926 – ???? Then Lt. Col. John W. Armstrong was the Commander of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron based at DaNang Airbase, South Vietnam. On 9 November 1967, Lt. Col. Armstrong, pilot; and Capt. Lance P. Sijan, co-pilot; comprised the crew of an F4C, call sign “AWOL 01,” that…