TIMMONS, BRUCE ALLAN

Name: Bruce Allan Timmons
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/E4
Unit: TF 115, PCF Division-102, USNAVFORV
Date of Birth: 20 July 1947
Home City of Record: FORT LAUDERDALE FL
Date of Loss: 15 November 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 0 0
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: PCF 77
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:

CRAFT OVERTURNED SUBJ DROWNED

CACCF/GROUND CASUALTY/DROWNED SUFFOCATED/QUANG NAM

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress Files;

South Vietnam, pre-1975: CHANGE OF CATEGORY FORM "DEAD (BNR)" TO "REMAINS
NONRECOVERABLE"; ASGRO Board of Review
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: BRUCE ALLAN TIMMONS

Subjects: Killed; Da Nang

Reel: 190

Page: 9-10

Type of Document: Memorandum

Date of Report: 74 10 17

Date of Information: 66 11 15

Originator: JCRC-CDD-CR

Category: Casualty files



South Vietnam, pre-1975: NARRATIVE; Biographic/Site Report
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: BRUCE ALLAN TIMMONS

Subjects: Killed; Hue River; Huong Dien District; THUA THIEN-HUE

Reel: 190

Page: 13-16

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 93 04 01

Date of Information: 66 11 15

Originator: JTF-FA

Category: Casualty files

 

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RM3 BRUCE ALLEN TIMMONS

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Radioman Third Class Petty Officer Bruce Allen Timmons entered the U.S. Navy from Florida and was a member of Coastal Squadron 1, Patrol Craft Fast Division 102. On November 15, 1966, he was a crew member aboard PCF 77 on a rescue mission at the mouth of the Hue River in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q YD 793 330 in South Vietnam. While attempting to recover a man who had gone overboard on another vessel, Petty Officer Timmons' boat overturned. An extensive search of the area did not locate him and his remains were not recovered. Today, Petty Officer Timmons is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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