Birth 06MAY36 Rank TSGT Date of Death 01SEP69 P. of birth   Service Air Force Place Long Khanh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Tacoma Unit 4 SOP SQ Death Code Hostile Died; Fixed Wing - NonCrew; Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown   service # 461525337 Panel 18WEST - 19   married Married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 11NOV68 Comment   Cemetery

George Howard DANIELS II

Birth 01FEB48 Rank SP5 Date of Death 04SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Duong, S. Vietnam Town of Record Manchester Unit 25th Inf Div, A Co, 2nd Bn, 34th Arm Death Code Hostile Died; Ground Casualty; Other Causes Hometown   service # 538442172 Panel 18WEST - 32   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 03MAR69 Comment   Cemetery

Terry Dean MASON

Birth 16SEP48 Rank SN Date of Death 05SEP69 P. of birth   Service Navy Place Tay Ninh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Toppenish Unit RIVDIV132, RIVRON13, RIVPATFLOT5 Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar Hometown   service # 532489391 Panel 18WEST - 41   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 15JUL69 Comment River Assault Sqdn 13 Cemetery

Wendell Melvin BURNS

Birth 25SEP48 Rank CPL Date of Death 06SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Quang Tin, S. Vietnam Town of Record Yakima Unit Americal Div, C Btry, 1st Bn, 14th Arty Death Code Non-Hostile Died; Ground Casualty; Other Accident Hometown   service # 537503306 Panel 18WEST - 46   married Married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 15DEC68 Comment   Cemetery

Gregory Edward SCOTT

Birth 22MAY48 Rank SP4 Date of Death 09SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Dinh Duong, S. Vietnam Town of Record Colfax Unit 9th Inf Div B Co 5th Bn 60th Inf Death Code Hostile Died Wounds; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 536485986 Panel 18WEST - 63   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 05MAY69 Comment 9th Infantry Cemetery Colfax Cem.

Funeral set Friday for Gregory Scott The funeral for Gregory E. Scott, 21, Colfax soldier who died 9 Sep (1969) of wounds sustained in Vietnam, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Peace Lutheran church with the Rev. Carl Schulz officiating. Burial will follow in the Colfax cemetery with a military detachment from Ft. Lewis participating. Scott had been in Vietnam since May. He had been wounded 3 Sep (1969) while riding on a military vehicle and died of injuries six days later. Scott was born at Duluth MN 22 May 1948, and came with his family to Colfax the same year. He graduated from Colfax high school in 1967 and attended Spokane community college before entering the army. Surviving are his mother, Margaret E. Scott, Colfax, and his father, Edward Scott, Sandpoint ID. (Colfax Gazette, Colfax WA, Sep 1969)

John Floyd PETTIGREW

Birth 26OCT49 Rank SP4 Date of Death 15SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army Place Binh Duong, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 1st Inf Div, C Co, 1st Bn, 28th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 532448397 Panel 17WEST - 46   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 12JUN69 Comment   Cemetery

Theodore Leonard WYKOFF

Birth 29MAR28 Rank SSGT Date of Death 15SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Los Angeles CA Unit 5th Infantry Division Mechanized Death Code Non-hostile, died of illness/injury; ground casualty; other accident Hometown   service #   Panel 18WEST - 92   married married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 26FEB69 Comment Tacoma   Cemetery

Jerry Edwin BARKER

Birth 26SEP49 Rank LCPL Date of Death 17SEP69 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit Co L, 3/3rd Mar, 3rd Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Other Explosive Device Hometown   service # 537431619 Panel 18WEST - 100   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 25FEB69 Comment   Cemetery

Dennis James BROWNING

Birth 31AUG47 Rank SP5 Date of Death 23SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army Place Phuoc Tuy, S. Vietnam Town of Record Retsil Unit 5th Trans Co, 159th Trans Bn, 4th Trans Cmd Death Code Non-Hostile Died Other; Ground Casualty; Drowned Suffocated Hometown   service # 534464915 Panel 18WEST - 127   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 25FEB69 Comment   Cemetery

Randy Van TURNER

Birth 23FEB44 Rank 1LT Date of Death 25SEP69 P. of birth Spokane Service Army Place Bien Hoa, S. Vietnam Town of Record Spokane Unit MACV, Adv Tm 98 Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 533407070 Panel 17WEST - 08 married Married MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 29MAY69 Comment EWU Cemetery Spokane Memorial Gardens, Spokane WA North Central High School, Spokane WA, 1962

Obituary Funeral services for 1st Lt. Randy V. Turner, 25, Spokane County's 76th Vietnam War casualty, will be tomorrow at 3 in Hazen & Jaeger's, the Rev. Laurel V. Lindberg officiating. Burial will follow in Spokane Memorial Gardens. Lt. Turner, a graduate of North Central High School and Eastern Washington State College, died 25 Sep (1969) in Vietnam. A resident here most of his life (born in Spokane) he was a member of Northwood Presbyterian Church and Phi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Survivors are his wife, Linda G. Turner, at the Home, N4110 Cannon, and his daughter, Tamara Ann, also at the Home; his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Hutchinson; a sister, Shelley Hutchinson, and a grandmother, Mrs. Della Mae Springsteel, all of Spokane. The family said memorial gifts may go to the Randy Turner fund in care of his fraternity, W119 Sixth, Cheney. (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane WA, 3 Oct 1969)

Kenneth Alfred SCHIMANSKI

Birth 25MAY50 Rank SGT Date of Death 28SEP69 P. of birth   Service Army Place Hua Nghia, S. Vietnam Town of Record Colbert Unit 1st Inf Div, D Co, 2nd Bn, 28th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Other Explosive Device Hometown   service # 533528075 Panel 17WEST - 17   married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 01SEP69 Comment   Cemetery

Luther Albert LONO

Birth 12JUN31 Rank LTC Event Date 29SEP69 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Laos Town of Record Tacoma Unit VMA 242, MAG 11, 1ST MAW Death Code Hostile,Died Missing; Fixed Wing Pilot; Air Loss, Crash on Land Hometown   service # 379285381 Panel 17WEST - 19   married Married MIA - Remains id: 16 Jul 2001 Medals   Tour Date 29SEP69 Comment Family lived Hawaii Cemetery

(Extracted MIA report from P.O.W. Network)
Luther Albert Lono was born 12 Jun 1931. His town of record was Tacoma WA. His unit was VMA 242, MAG 11. On 29 Sep 1969 he was the pilot of an A6A with 1Lt. Patrick R. Curran, serving as bombardier navigator. They were on an armed reconnaissance mission in support of Seventh U.S.A.F. operations over Laos. The mission proceeded without incident until 8:50 p.m., the Airborne Tactical Air Control aircraft lost contact with the Lono and Curran. The last radio contact had been about 25 miles west of Khe Sanh. No one saw it go down and two hours later they were declared over due and an electronic search began. A emergency signal was heard in the early hours of 30 Sep but no contact was made. A visual search was made on the 30th and no sign of the crew or aircraft was found. On 11 Feb 2000 remains to two Americans were returned to the US from Laos and on 16 Jul 2001 it was announced that Major Luther A. Lono was home at last.
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