FLEMING, ANTHONY J.

Name: Anthony J. Fleming
Rank/Branch: Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class/US Navy
Unit:
Age: 25
Home City of Record: Buffalo NY
Date of Loss: December 1990
Country of Loss: Saudi Arabia
Loss Coordinates:
Status: Killed/Body Not Recovered
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ferry

Other Personnel in Incident: None missing

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 10 February 1991 from one or more
of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Updated POW NETWORK 2002.

REMARKS: OPERATION DESERT SHIELD

SYNOPSIS: AO3 Anthony J. Fleming was one of several Navy personnel onboard
one of the USS SARATOGA's ferries in December 1990 when it overturned,
presumably killing all aboard.

The bodies of twenty individuals were subsequently recovered, but Fleming
was never found. He is listed in a non-combat casualty status, killed, body
not recovered. His name is listed with honor among those Allied prisoners of
war and missing in action because his remains were never located.