SOUTHWICK, CHARLES EVERETT

RIP  12/09/17

Name: Charles Everett Southwick
Rank/Branch: O4/United States Navy, pilot
Unit: VF 114
Date of Birth: 06 October 1931
Home City of Record: Fairbanks AK
Date of Loss: 14 May 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 194700 North  1055000 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: David Rollins, Returnee

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

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Charles Southwick retired from the United States Navy as a Captain. He lives
in California.

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Date: 1 April 2010
From: "Foster, Gary" 
Subject: Release of Book: Phantom in the River: The Flight of Linfield Two Zero One

I am pleased to announce to the NAMPOW community the release yesterday
of my book dedicated to Ev Southwick and Jack Rollins, entitled Phantom
in the River: The Flight of Linfield Two Zero One. It's an account of Ev
and Jack's flak suppression mission in their F-4 Phantom off the USS
Kitty Hawk against the air defenses of the Thanh Hoa Bridge in mid-May
1967. It recounts their shoot down and capture and their return to
Vietnam thirty-seven years later, to their landing site where on the
exact date and almost to the exact hour decades before they were
captured. Published by Hellgate Press, Phantom in the River is available
in all major bookstores.
 
My special thanks to Ev and Jack for their encouragement and advice and
to so many others who helped me along the way.

Sincerely,

Gary W. Foster

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12/09/17

Received news from the Docent Director on the Midway that Ev flew west this morning.  He was 86. 
Internment at Miramar National Cemetery and reception on the Midway being planned for January.
Another great one leaves us and his infectious laugh will be missed!

M