EGAN, WILLIAM PATRICK
Remains Returned - buried July 16, 2011
Name: William Patrick Egan
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit: Attack Squadron
215, Carrier Air Wing 21
Date of Birth: 20 January 1931
Home City of Record: FORT WORTH TX
Date of Loss: 29 April 1966
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 170604 North 1054200 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H #137579
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0321
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
No further information available at this time.
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http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-Vietnam-vet-s-remains-finally-make-it-home-2079748.php
The remains of a long-lost Houston man who was shot down over Laos in 1966 are returned to his family. ......
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ofSTpEAM
On February 26, 2011, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of
Lieutenant Commander William Patrick Egan, missing
from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Commander Egan entered the U.S. Navy from
Texas and was a member of Attack Squadron 215,
Carrier Air Wing 21. On April 29, 1966, he piloted
an A-1H Skyraider (bureau number unknown) that took
off from the USS Hancock (CVA-19) on a combat
mission over Khammouan Province, Laos. During an
attack on enemy targets, his aircraft was hit by
enemy ground fire and crashed, killing LTCD Egan.
His remains could not be recovered at the time.
However, in late 2009, a Laotian farmer turned over
fragmentary human remains recovered from his field;
using modern forensic technology, U.S. investigators
were able to identify them as the remains of LCDR
Egan.
Lieutenant Commander Egan is memorialized in the
Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.