Name: Wendell Burke Rivers
Rank/Branch: United States Navy/O5
Unit: VA 155 15 AIR WING/USS Coral Sea
Date of Birth: 06 July 1928
Home City of Record: Seward NE
Date of Loss: 10 September 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 183500 North 1054600 East (at Vinh)
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4E
Missions: 96
Korea - Destroyer
Other Personnel in Incident: none
Refno: 0141
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. 2023
REMARKS: 730212 RELEASED BY DRV
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Wendell Rivers retired from the United States Navy as a Captain. He and his
wife Betty resided in Texas until his death.