CARLSON, JOHN WERNER

Name: John Werner Carlson
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 15 April 1939
Home City of Record: CHICAGO IL
Date of Loss: 07 December 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 111245 North  1064042 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F5C #10520
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0543

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.  2020

REMARKS:

CACCF CRASH/PILOT/TAY NINH  6 YRS USAF

No further information available at this time.

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CAPT JOHN WERNER CARLSON

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Captain John Werner Carlson entered the U.S. Air Force from Illinois and served with the 10th Fighter Squadron. On December 6, 1966, he took off from Bien Hoa Airbase, South Vietnam, in a single-seat F-5 Freedom Fighter (tail number 65-10520, call sign "Tiger 43") as one of three aircraft on a close air support mission against enemy targets near Saigon. The Forward Air Controller (FAC) reported that Capt Carlson's plane passed over the target area and released its ordnance before it descended and crashed near the target. The FAC did not observe an ejection or parachute. A search and rescue helicopter entered the area after the crash and attempted to locate Capt Carlson but found nothing. Today, Captain Carlson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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