HUDGENS, EDWARD MONROE

REMAINS RECOVERED OCT 94 AND APRIL 95 
ID MARCH 96

Name: Edward Monroe Hudgens
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:   22nd Special Operations Squadron.
Date of Birth: 06 September 1931
Home City of Record: TULSA OK
Date of Loss: 21 March 1970
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 173057 North  1054157 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:A1J
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1576

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:

At Na Phao, 5 miles SW Mu Gia

REMAINS RECOVERED OCT 94 AND APRIL 95  ID MARCH 96

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/18 YRS United States Air Force REFNO 1576

No further information available at this time.

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MAJ EDWARD MONROE HUDGENS

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On February 6, 1996, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Edward Monroe Hudgens, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Hudgens joined the U.S. Air Force from Oklahoma and was a member of the 22nd Special Operations Squadron. On March 21, 1970, he piloted an A-1J Skyraider (tail number 142065) on a search and recovery mission over Laos. Major Hudgens's aircraft was downed by ground fire while flying over the target area, and he was killed in the ensuing crash. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented immediate search and rescue for Maj Hudgens. After the war, a joint U.S. and Laotian investigative team conducted an excavation at a site associated with the loss of Maj Hudgens. They recovered remains that were identified as those of Maj Hudgens in 1996.

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

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