WINSTON, CHARLES C. III

09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED

Name: Charles C. Winston III
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 10 March 1938
Home City of Record: SCARSDALE NY
Date of Loss: 01 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 211800 North  1053300 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:RF101
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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09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV

CACCF CRASH/PILOT

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MAJ CHARLES CORTENS WINSTON III

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On October 25, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Charles Cortens Winston III, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Winston joined the U.S. Air Force from New York and was a member of the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. On August 1, 1967, he piloted an RF-101C Voodoo on a mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. Major Winston's aircraft crashed during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. His remains could not be immediately recovered. In September 1977, the Vietnamese government returned a set of remains to U.S. custody, and Maj Winston's remains were identified among them.

Major Winston is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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