BEHNFELDT, ROGER ERNEST

REMAINS RETURNED 09/24/87   ID announced 11/87, family accepts

Name: Roger Ernest Behnfeldt
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O3
Unit: 14th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
Date of Birth: 29 September 1944
Home City of Record: Defiance OH
Date of Loss: 19 August 1972
Country of Loss:  North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 2134000 North 1050000 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF4C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1911


Official pre-capture photo

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. 2019 with information from Justin Jackson-Mann.

REMARKS:

CACCF CRASH/PILOT

No further information available at this time.

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06/08/19

Tamatsu Shingaki  was the RIO of the RF4C when he was shot down and
the pilot was Roger Ernest Behnfeldt which is not mentioned in either of their
POW Network bios.  The information can be found at 
https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=79571

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01/2020

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ukCnMEAU

MAJ ROGER ERNEST BEHNFELDT

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On December 4, 1987, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Roger Ernest Behnfeldt, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Behnfeldt joined the U.S. Air Force from Ohio and was a member of the 14th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. On August 19, 1972, he piloted an RF-4C Phantom II (serial number 66-0355) on a weather reconnaissance mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. Major Behnfeldt's aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile during the mission, and he was killed in the incident. Search efforts failed to locate him at the time. In September 1987, the Vietnamese government returned the alleged remains of Maj Behnfeldt to U.S. custody, and forensic analysis confirmed the identification shortly thereafter. 

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

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