Eagle3
03-03-04, 03:03 PM
Just received from John Mscisz;
Lt. Michael McCormack and Ltjg Robert A. Clark are Home at Last.
MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC CORMICK LT - O3 - Navy - Regular 26 year old
Married, Caucasian, Male Born on Jul 08, 1946, From HONOLULU, HAWAII
Casualty was on Jan 10, 1973 NORTH VIETNAM FIXED WING - PILOT - AIR
LOSS, CRASH ON LAND Hostile, died while missing - Remains recovered,
identified 11/2003. burial 01/09/2004 Arlington National Cemetery.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Panel 01W - - Line 110
ROBERT ALAN CLARK LTJG - O2 - Navy - Reserve 26 year old Married,
Caucasian, Male Born on Sep 21, 1946, From NORTH HOLLYWOOD,
CALIFORNIA Casualty was on Jan 10, 1973 NORTH VIETNAM - FIXED WING -
CREW - AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND Hostile, died while missing - Remains
recovered, identified 11/2003. burial 01/09/2004 Arlington National
Cemetery. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Panel 01W - - Line 110
Two servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to their families for burial. They are Navy Lt. Michael McCormack and Ltjg Robert A. Clark of North Hollywood, Calif.
On Jan. 10, 1973, the two took off in an A-6A aircraft from USS Midway on a mission to suppress surface-to-air missiles in North Vietnam. Near the target area in Nghe An Province in North Vietnam, aircrew reported an estimated 15 surface-to-air missiles fired, as well as numerous antiaircraft rounds. McCormick and Clark's A-6A was not seen again. Attempts to contact the crew for four days through radio and visual searches were unsuccessful.
In July 1991, U.S. researchers discovered in a Vietnamese military
museum a data plate which correlated to the downed aircraft. Later, in another museum, they discovered photos of a crash site which also correlated to the missing aircraft. U.S. researchers examined Vietnamese wartime records which confirmed the downing of that aircraft in Nghe An Province in January 1973.
Between 1993 and 2002, U.S. researchers and joint U.S.-Vietnam teams conducted four field investigations and one excavation. During one of their field visits, a witness to the 1973 crash turned over remains
he claimed to have recovered at the site. During the excavation in 2002, additional remains were recovered.
The remains were identified in 2003 by the Central Identification Laboratory through skeletal analysis and mitochondrial DNA.
Lt. Michael McCormack and Ltjg Robert A. Clark are Home at Last.
MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC CORMICK LT - O3 - Navy - Regular 26 year old
Married, Caucasian, Male Born on Jul 08, 1946, From HONOLULU, HAWAII
Casualty was on Jan 10, 1973 NORTH VIETNAM FIXED WING - PILOT - AIR
LOSS, CRASH ON LAND Hostile, died while missing - Remains recovered,
identified 11/2003. burial 01/09/2004 Arlington National Cemetery.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Panel 01W - - Line 110
ROBERT ALAN CLARK LTJG - O2 - Navy - Reserve 26 year old Married,
Caucasian, Male Born on Sep 21, 1946, From NORTH HOLLYWOOD,
CALIFORNIA Casualty was on Jan 10, 1973 NORTH VIETNAM - FIXED WING -
CREW - AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND Hostile, died while missing - Remains
recovered, identified 11/2003. burial 01/09/2004 Arlington National
Cemetery. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Panel 01W - - Line 110
Two servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and returned to their families for burial. They are Navy Lt. Michael McCormack and Ltjg Robert A. Clark of North Hollywood, Calif.
On Jan. 10, 1973, the two took off in an A-6A aircraft from USS Midway on a mission to suppress surface-to-air missiles in North Vietnam. Near the target area in Nghe An Province in North Vietnam, aircrew reported an estimated 15 surface-to-air missiles fired, as well as numerous antiaircraft rounds. McCormick and Clark's A-6A was not seen again. Attempts to contact the crew for four days through radio and visual searches were unsuccessful.
In July 1991, U.S. researchers discovered in a Vietnamese military
museum a data plate which correlated to the downed aircraft. Later, in another museum, they discovered photos of a crash site which also correlated to the missing aircraft. U.S. researchers examined Vietnamese wartime records which confirmed the downing of that aircraft in Nghe An Province in January 1973.
Between 1993 and 2002, U.S. researchers and joint U.S.-Vietnam teams conducted four field investigations and one excavation. During one of their field visits, a witness to the 1973 crash turned over remains
he claimed to have recovered at the site. During the excavation in 2002, additional remains were recovered.
The remains were identified in 2003 by the Central Identification Laboratory through skeletal analysis and mitochondrial DNA.