Captain Alan Robert Trent 22 May 1940 – ???? On May 13, 1970, Captain Alan R. Trent and then 1st Lt Eric Huberthwere the crew in an F-4D (tail number 65-0607), one of a flight of two F-4s which took off from Phu Cat Air Base against a target approximately 105 miles northwest inside Cambodia.…
Colonel Smith J. Swords III 17 July 1929 – 17 August 1979 On 30 December 1967, then Major Smith Swords III, pilot; and 1st Lt. Murray L. Wortham, co-pilot; comprised the crew of an F4C, call sign “Flamingo 02,” that departed DaNang Airbase as the #2 aircraft in a flight of two. They were conducting…
1st Lt Albert Eduardo Rodriguez 18 July 1942 – ???? Then Maj. Ernest A. Olds and 1Lt. Albert E. Rodriguez comprised the crew of an F4D Phantom fighter/bomber sent on a mission over North Vietnam on March 11, 1968. Their mission area was near a railroad which runs parallel to the Nguon Nay River in…
Major Donald William Pick 13 January 1930 – 8 August 1968 Major Donald William Pick was killed on 8 August 1968. His F-4 crashed at sea in Military Region 1 of South Vietnam, and his body was not recovered.
Major Woodrow Wilson Parker 18 April 1943 – ???? On April 24, 1968, then-LTC Bobby G. Vinson (pilot) and 1LT Woodrow W. Parker (WSO) launched from Da Nang Airbase, South Vietnam, lead in a flight of two F-4D Phantoms on night strike mission against a storage area near Van Loc, some 10 miles northwest of…
Colonel Ernest Arthur Olds 14 July 1934 – ???? Then Maj. Ernest A. Olds and 1Lt. Albert E. Rodriguez comprised the crew of an F4D Phantom fighter/bomber sent on a mission over North Vietnam on March 11, 1968. Their mission area was near a railroad which runs parallel to the Nguon Nay River in Quang…
Captain Eugene Thomas Meadows 4 March 1940 – 13 October 1966 A flight of two F-4s from the 480th TFS were conducting an armed reconnaissance mission in Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam, when they came across truck traffic on Route 103 a few miles 10 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The two aircraft…
LtCol John Murray Martin 17 June 1931 – 20 November 1967 On 20 November 1967 two F-4Cs, CRAB 1 and CRAB 2, from the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Danang were tasked against a suspected SAM site north of the DMZ. CRAB 2, F-4C tail number 63-7680, was flown by Captain John M. Martin and…
Captain Glenn Hung Nin Lee 6 August 1945 – 27 May 1970 On 27 May 1970 F-4 aircraft from the 480th Tac Ftr Sqdn were supporting US troops in Cambodia, about 45 miles west of Ban Me Thuot. After making several passes at the target, F-4D tail number 66-0275 flown by Capt George R. Keller…
Captain George Richard Keller 5 September 1943 – 27 May 1970 On 27 May 1970 F-4 aircraft from the 480th Tac Ftr Sqdn were supporting US troops in Cambodia, about 45 miles west of Ban Me Thuot. After making several passes at the target, F-4D tail number 66-0275 flown by Capt George R. Keller, Farmington,…