TIFFIN, RAINFORD

Name: Rainford Tiffin
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 04 March 1938
Home City of Record: SANTA CRUZ CA
Date of Loss: 21 July 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 0 0
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D
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

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CACCF/CRASH/PILOT

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Library of Congress files:

North Vietnam, pre-1975: CASUALTY REPORT - FINAL
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: TIFFIN, RAINFORD

Subjects: YEN BAI PROVINCE; Killed

Comments: Includes chronological list of contacts

Reel: 194

Page: 49-50

Type of Document: Casualty Report

Date of Report: 74 10 23

Date of Information: 74 10 23

Originator: USAF

Category: Casualty files

North Vietnam, pre-1975: FILE RECORD SUMMARY, USAF DATA SHEET, JCRC LOSS
NARRATIVE AND FILE PHOTOGRAPH
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: TIFFIN, RAINFORD

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Crash site; YEN BAI PROVINCE; CAM NHAN VILLAGE;
CHO NGOC; YEN BAI PROVINCE; Killed

Reel: 194

Page: 1-5

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 00 00 00

Date of Information: 66 07 21

Category: Casualty files

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02/2020

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MAJ RAINFORD TIFFIN

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Captain Rainford Tiffin, who joined the U.S. Air Force from California, served with the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On July 21, 1966, he piloted a single-seat F-105 Thunderchief (tail number 62-4227, call sign "Portland 04") in a flight of four on a combat mission over Yen Bai Province, North Vietnam. The flight encountered enemy anti-aircraft fire over the target area, and when it regrouped for the return flight to base, "Portland 04" was missing. The other pilots flying the mission observed no crash, and the flight leader attempted to establish contact with Capt Tiffen but was unsuccessful. Two visual and electronic searches were conducted but had no success. Capt Tiffin's last known location was (GC) 48Q VK 914 234. While carried in the status of missing in action (MIA), the Air Force promoted Capt Tiffin to the rank of Major (Maj). Today, Maj Tiffin is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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