LOHEED, HUBERT BRADFORD
Remains Identified August 23, 1994
Name: Hubert Bradford Loheed
Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy
Unit: Commanding Officer, Attack Squadron 146, USS RANGER (CVA 61)
Date of Birth: 15 October 1924 (Brockton MA)
Home City of Record: Middleboro MA
Date of Loss: 01 February 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 190000N 1053700E (WG648007)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4C
Refno: 0245
Other Personnel In Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of
the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence
with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W.
NETWORK 2020.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Commander Hubert B. Loheed was the Commanding Officer of Attack
Squadron 146. On February 1, 1966, he launched in his A4C Skyhawt attack
aircraft leading a flight of four aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS
RANGER (CVA 61).
Once the flight reached their target over North Vietnam, Cdr. Loheed and his
wingman made a section run on the target, releasing their ordnance. Both
aircraft then entered a steep climb. Cdr. Loheed's aircraft then rolled port
and entered a steep dive with his wingman 200-300 feet behind him. Cdr.
Loheed's plane was last seen as it dove into cloud overcast at an altitude
of 1000 feet. The last known location of the aircraft was in Nghe An
Province, North Vietnam, about 5 miles from the coast, and about 5 miles
northwest of the city of Phu Dien Chau.
Search efforts were conducted, but were unsuccessful in making radio or
visual contact with Cdr. Lohhed. It was the opinion of his wingman and
others that he could not have survived the possible crash or ejection of his
aircraft. He was placed in Missing In Action status, and nine years later,
presumed to be dead.
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 Loheed is among 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.
During the period he was maintained missing, Hubert B. Loheed was promoted
to the rank of Captain.
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On August 15, 1994, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Hubert Bradford Loheed, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Loheed joined the U.S. Navy from Massachusetts and served in Attack Squadron 146. On February 1, 1966, he piloted an A-4C Skyhawk (bureau number 149527) that launched from the USS Ranger (CVA-61) on an attack mission against enemy targets in Nghe An Province, North Vietnam. His aircraft went down during the mission and CAPT Loheed was killed. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1994, a joint U.S./Vietnamese search team investigated the crash site and recovered human remains which were identified as those of CAPT Loheed.
Captain Loheed is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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