HANLEY, LARRY JAMES

Remains identified 03/2013

Name: Larry James Hanley
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:  357th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Date of Birth: 13 February 1943
Home City of Record: WALLA WALLA WA
Date of Loss: 04 November 1969
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 172900 North  1055400 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D #1734
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1517

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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Maj. Larry J. Hanley, U.S. Air Force Reserve, was lost on Nov. 4, 1969, near
Khammouan Province, Laos.
He was accounted for on March 20, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors
In the summer of 2013, in Walla Walla, Washington.

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Missing Vietnam Veteran Laid To Rest in Walla Walla
KNDO/KNDU
"My wife bought a POW bracelet for my grandmother in 1970 while I was in Vietnam...
hrough the years it got passed down to me," said Bill Reesman with VFW Post 3377 in
Texas. Carved in the bracelet is Major Hanley's name. Reesman's worn it for years ...
 

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01/2020

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MAJ LARRY JAMES HANLEY

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On March 20, 2013, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, DPAA) identified the remains of Major Larry James Hanley, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Hanley entered the U.S. Air Force from Washington and was a member of the 357th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On November 4, 1969, he piloted an F-105D Thunderchief (tail number unknown) on a combat mission over Khammouan Province, Laos. While attacking an enemy anti-aircraft position in the target area, his Thunderchief crashed, killing Maj Hanley. The exact crash site was unknown and Maj Hanley's remains could not be recovered at the time. However, in 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) recovered human remains that were obtained from an indigenous source and found at an aircraft crash site in Khammouan Province. Using modern forensic technology, U.S. investigators were able to identify the remains as those of Maj Hanley.

Major Hanley is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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