MUSSELMAN, STEPHEN OWEN

REMAINS RETURNED 07/08/81

Name: Stephen Owen Musselman
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 04 December 1945
Home City of Record: TEXARKANA TX
Date of Loss: 10 September 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 205500 North  1054900 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A7C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

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: DEAD, NHAN DAN PHOTO

REMAINS RETURNED 07/08/81

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT

No further information available at this time.
 

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LT STEPHEN OWEN MUSSELMAN

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On July 20, 1981, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Stephen Owen Musselman, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Musselman joined the U.S. Navy from Texas and was a member of Attack Squadron 82. On September 10, 1972, he piloted an A-7C Corsair II (bureau number 156798) on a mission over Ha Tay Province, Vietnam. Lieutenant Musselman's Corsair was downed by a surface-to-air missile over Ha Tay; he ejected from the aircraft but died at some point afterwards, although the detailed circumstances of his loss are not known. In July 1981, the Vietnamese government returned a set of remains that they had associated with LT Musselman, and U.S. analysts confirmed the identification a short time later.

Lieutenant Musselman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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