REMEMBRANCE PAGE
- Last updated November 16, 2008
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and all who never came home
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If anyone can provide personal information (inc photos) about my adopted MIAs
please email me at piglt at comcast.net. I also need assistance with MOS translations.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
GUY FLETCHER COLLINS
Photo not available.
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O5 (Lieutenant Colonel)
Unit: Unknown
MOS: Unknown (Pilot?)
Length of Service: 18 years
Date of Birth: 26 May 1928
Home City of Record: Miami, FL
Marital Status: Married
Date of Loss: 13 March 68
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 164428 North 1060817 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1E #133888
(Douglas Skyraider: single engine propellor driven attack aircraft)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident: Joseph Byrne
Refno: 1084
Location on the Wall: Panel 44E - Row 033
WILLIAM LAWRENCE DEANE
Photo courtesy of Lynn O'Shea
National Alliance of Famililes
UPDATE
On October 4, 1999 remains returned to the US in 1995
were identified as Major William Lawrence Deane.
On April 14, 2000 Major Deane was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery,
along with Elbert Bush, William Stinson, and Mickey Wilson.
Branch/Rank: US Army/O4 Major
Unit: AGC Army Advisory Group Headquarters, MACV
(AGC = Adj General Corps)(MACV = Military Assistance Command, Vietnam)
MOS: Unknown
Date of Birth: 27 September 1934
Home City of Record: Orlando, FL
Marital Status: Married
Date of Loss: 08 January 1973
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 16421N 1070956E (YD324528)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 1
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
(Huey Slick: assault support multipurpose helicopter...slick means no weapons)
Refno: 1978
Other Personnel in Incident: All MIA
Elbert W. Bush
Richard A. Knutson
Manuel A. Lauterio
William S. Stinson
Mickey A. Wilson
Location on the Wall: Panel 01W - Row 109
AGC patch
SYNOPSIS:
WO1 Richard Knutson (pilot), WO1 Mickey A. Wilson (aircraft commander),
SP5 William S. Stinson (gunner), SP5 Manuel A. Lauterio (crew chief),
and SSgt. Elbert W. Bush and Maj. William L. Dean (both passengers)
were aboard a UH1H helicopter (serial #69-15619) that flew in
support of the American Senior Advisor to the Vietnamese Airborne Division in Quang Tri
and Thua Thien Provinces, working between the provincial capitals of Hue and Quang Tri.
On January 8, 1973, at about 1430 hours, the aircraft had departed a landing
zone en route to other LZs without making radio contact with the 2nd Battalion Technical
Operations Center. When no radio contact was received by 1500 hours, the other LZs
were queried. The helicopter did not go to either of the two designated LZs,
nor had any communication been established with them.
The helicopter's intended route would have taken it northwest toward Quang Tri, with a left
turn to an LZ south of the Thach Han River. Although the helicopter failed
to contact either LZ along the route, it was later seen flying northwest toward Quang Tri City
and crossing the Thach Han River into enemy held territory. While in this area,
the helicopter was seen to circle with door guns firing. Enemy automatic weapons
fire was heard, and a direct hit was made on the tail boom by a missile, reportedly an SA7.
Aerial searches of the suspected crash site on January 8 and 9 failed to locate
either the wreckage or the crew. The aircraft was shot down less than three
weeks before American involvement in the war came to an official end.
Intelligence reports indicated that of the six men aboard, four were seen alive
on the ground. Further information indicated that the aircraft did not explode or burn on
impact. The families of the men assumed that their loved ones would be released
with the other POWs. Some were even so informed. But the crew of the UH1H
was not released, and have not been released or found since that day. As
thousands of reports of Americans alive in Southeast Asia mount, these familes wonder
if their men are among the hundreds thought to be still alive.
Click here to read an article from the March 24, 1995 issue of "Bit's N Pieces"
(National Alliance of Families) that relates to Major Deane. Supplied by Lynn O'Shea.
GARY DOUGLAS HOPPS
Photo not available.
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3 (Lieutenant)
Unit: Unknown
MOS: 1315 USNR Pilot
Length of Service: 4 years
Date of Birth: 28 August 1936
Home City of Record: Coral Gables, FL
Marital Status: Single
Date of Loss: 10 February 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 171258 North 1063459 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H #137627
(If typo and is AH-1: Bell single-motor armed helicopter)
(Fixed wing aircraft according to one source that omits "code" for craft)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident:Unknown
Refno: 0251
Location on the Wall: Panel 05E - Row 022
DAVID EARL MARTIN
Photo not available.
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O1 (Ensign)
Unit: Unknown
MOS: 1325 (Aircrewman)
Length of Service: Unknown
Date of Birth: 29 August 1942
Home City of Record: Orlando, FL
Marital Status: Single
Date of Loss: 04 April 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 184059 North 1073600 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B
(F4: McDonald Phantom II - all weather jet interceptor and bomber)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident:Unknown
Refno: Unknown
Location on the Wall: Panel 17E - Row 099
STEPHEN RUSSELL SCRIVENER
Photo not available.
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2(1st Lieutenant)
Unit: Unknown
MOS: Unknown (Pilot?)
Length of Service: Unknown
Date of Birth: 10 October 1944
Home City of Record: Tampa, FL
Marital Status: Single
Date of Loss: 16 March 1971
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 164759 North 1062559 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:O2A (O2 = Cessna Skymaster Twin Engine Aircraft)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident: Douglas Seeley, KIA/BNR
Refno: 1726
Location on the Wall: Panel 04W - Row 055
COURTNEY EDWARD WEISSMUELLER
Photo courtesy of Lynn O'Shea
National Alliance of Famililes
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3(Captain)
Unit: Unknown
MOS: 96316(Pilot?)
Length of Service: Unknown
Date of Birth: 15 November 1932
Home City of Record: Orlando, FL
Marital Status: Married
Date of Loss: 12 February 1967
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 143900 North 1071300 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100D (F100 = Super Sabre Northamerican aviations bomber)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident: Unknown
Refno: 0593
Location on the Wall: Panel 15E - Row 023
LEROY CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
Photo not available.
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E2 (Lance Corporal)
Unit: C Co. 1st Bn 4th Marines 3rd Marine Division
MOS: 0311Infantryman
Length of Service: Unknown
Date of Birth: 04 August 1947
Home City of Record: Jacksonville, FL
Marital Status: Single
Date of Loss: 25 May 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam (Quang Tri Province)
Loss Coordinates: 165332 North 1065546 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground (Artillery, Rocket, Mortar)
Missions: Unknown
Other Personnel in Incident: Unknown
Refno: Unknown
Location on the Wall: Panel 24W - Row 109
Categories of Degrees of Information
Enemy knowledge of POW/MIA
Category 1, Confirmed knowledge
A. Identified by the enemy by name.
B. Identified by reliable sources. Received from releasee/escapee or
C. Reported by highly reliable intelligence sources.
D. Identified through analysis of all-source intelligence.
Category 2, Suspect knowledge
A. Involved in the same incidents as individuals in Category 1.
B. Lost in areas or under conditions that they may reasonably be expected to be known by the enemy.
C. Connected with an incident that was discussed but not identified by name in the enemy news media, or
D. Probably identified through analysis of all-source intelligence.
Category 3, Doubtful knowledge
This category contains individuals whose loss incident is such that it is doubtful that the
enemy would have knowledge of the specific individuals (e.g. aircrews lost over water or remote areas).
Category 4, Unknown Knowledge
A. Individuals whose time and place of incident are unknown (e.g. aircrews members downed at unknown
locations or ground personnel that were separated from their units at an unknown time or place), and
B. Who do not meet criteria of categories 1 through 3.
Category 5, Category unrelated to degree of enemy knowledge
A. Individuals whose remains have been determined to be nonrecoverable as outlined
in Department of the Army Technical Manual 10-286, January 1964, sction 39.
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REFERENCES
Biographical information written in white comes from Operation Just Cause:
"All Biographical and loss information on Vietnam Era POW/MIA's provided by
Operation Just Cause have been supplied by Chuck and Mary Schantag of
POW Network.
Biographical information written in this color comes from a compilation
of sources including, but not limited to:
The Vietnam Veterans Home Page Including Wall locations and MOS information
"In the Field: The language of the Vietnam War" by Linda Reinberg, Facts on File Inc.
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