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Other Personnel In Incident: James C.McKittrick;
William Lemmons (both missing)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project
15 October 1990 from one or more of the following:

raw data from U.S.Government agency sources,

correspondence with POW/MIA families,

published sources, interviews.

SYNOPSIS: SFC Edward Guillory, Lt. William Lemmons

and Maj. James McKittrick were aboard an OH23 Raven

helicopter on a visual recon mission operating in

Quang Tin Province on June 18, 1967.

They were to spot artillery targets for the Artillery

Battery that McKitrick and Gillory were attached to.

At 1845 hours, the helicopter was declared missing.

Extensive searches were conducted that night aided

by artillery flares and aircraft mounted searchlights,

but no trace of the aircraft or the crew was found.

In the next few days several crash sites were reported

and searches made, but all efforts were fruitless.

Guillory, Lemmons and McKittrick were classified

Missing In Action. There is reason to belive the

enemy knows their fates. They are amoung nearly 2500

Americans still missing in Southeast Asia.

When the war ended, and 591 Americans were released

in Operation Homecoming in 1973, military experts

expressed their dismay that "some hundreds" of POWs

did not come home with them. Since that time,thousands

of reports have been received, indicating that many

Americans are still being held against their will

in Southeast Asia. Whether the crew of the OH23

is amoung them is not known. What is certain, however,

is that if only one American remains alive in enemy hands,

we owe him our best effort to bring him home.

William E. Lemmons and James C. McKittrick were promoted

to the rank of Major and Edward J. Guillory was

promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major during

the period they were maintained missing

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