On June 6, 1970, an AC-119K Stinger (tail number 52-5935, call sign "Lemon 10") with a crew of ten developed engine trouble shortly after take-off from Da Nang Air Base and crashed in the South China Sea in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q BT 167 840. Search and rescue (SAR) teams located and rescued nine of the crew but could not locate the tenth crew member.

Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Clyde Douglas Alloway, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New Hampshire, served with the 18th Special Operations Squadron. He was the illuminator operator aboard the Stinger when it crashed. After the crash, he made radio contact with the Search and Rescue (SAR) team and stated that he was tangled in his parachute and unable to remain above the surface of the water. The SAR team was unable to locate him and he was not heard from again. Subsequent to the incident and while carried in the status of missing in action, the U.S. Air Force promoted SSgt Alloway to the rank of Technical Sergeant (TSgt). Today, TSgt Alloway is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.  

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.

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