WOODWORTH, SAMUEL ALEXANDER

Name: Samuel Alexander Woodworth
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 25 September 1930
Home City of Record: MINCO OK
Date of Loss: 17 April 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 174000 North  1054600 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0074

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. Updated 2020.

REMARKS: NO PULL OUT CRASH EXPLODE

MU GIA PASS BORDER KHAMMOUANE/QUANG BINH

JCRC SAYS LAOS OTHERS SAY NORTH VIETNAM

CACCF/CRASH LAOS/PILOT
                          

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress Files:

Laos: DEATH NON-BATTLE
Country: Laos

Name: SAMUEL ALEXANDER WOODWORTH

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed

Reel: 154

Page: 18

Type of Document: Casualty Report

Date of Report: 76 03 12

Date of Information: 65 04 17

Originator: USAF

Category: Casualty files

CASUALTY MESSAGE - DEATH IN BATTLE
Name: SAMUEL ALEXANDER WOODWORTH

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed

Reel: 154

Page: 4-6

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 65 04 17

Date of Information: 65 04 17

Document Number: 171145ZAPR65

Originator: 331 AB SQ TAKHLI VAB THAI

Category: Casualty files
 


post-1975 Vietnam:Analysis of material evidence associated with case 0074
Country: post-1975 Vietnam

Name: Woodworth, S.A.

Subjects: Ha Tinh; Crash site

Reel: 490

Page: 4-6

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 00 02 28

Date of Information: 99 07 16

Document Number: 280800ZFEB00

Originator: JTFFA

Category: MISC PW FILES


post-1975 Vietnam: JOINT FIELD ACTIVITY 95-2L SITUATION REPORT 012
Country: post-1975 Vietnam; Laos

Name: WOODWORTH, S.A.

Subjects: Crash site; Remains

Reel: 466

Page: 485-488

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 94 11 16

Date of Information: 94 11 00

Document Number: 160759ZDEC94

Originator: AMEMBASSY Vientiane

Category: MISC PW FILES

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Daily Oklahoman, The (KRT)
July 4, 2006

Fallen troops' sacrifice, legacy live on in memories
Ron Jackson

Capt. Samuel Alexander Woodworth may have had a premonition.

Before boarding an airplane for Vietnam, the Oklahoma fighter pilot turned
to his wife, Nelle, and mentioned the acreage they purchased at Colorado
Springs, Colo., to build their dream house......

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02/2020

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CAPT SAMUEL ALEXANDER WOODWORTH

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Captain Samuel Alexander Woodworth, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Oklahoma, was a member of the 563rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. On April 17, 1965, he piloted a single-seat F-105D Thunderchief (tail number 61-0171) as part of a four-plane armed reconnaissance mission over enemy targets in Laos. During a rocket attack on the target, his aircraft was seen to descend close to the target before crashing, striking a hill and exploding in the vicinity of (GC) 48 Q WE 813 533. The pilots of other aircraft on the mission did not see Capt Woodworth parachute from his Thunderchief before it hit the ground, and enemy presence in the area prevented ground searches of the crash site. Further attempts to locate Capt Woodworth were unsuccessful, and his remains have not been recovered. Today, Captain Woodworth is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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