BAKER, DAVID Earle
RIP
| Name: David Earle Baker Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force Unit: 21st TASS Date of Birth: 30 September 1946 Home City of Record: Huntington NY Date of Loss: 27 June 1972 Country of Loss: Cambodia Loss Coordinates: 110300 North 1055400 East Status (in 1973): Returnee Category: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: O2A Flew the F15E in "Desert Storm" Missions: 50 NOTE: ONLY USAF POW to be returned from Cambodia Other Personnel in Incident: none |
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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. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 2023.
REMARKS: 730212 RELEASED BY PRG
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David Baker retired as a Brigadier General from the United States Air Force
in October 1997. He was the only Vietnam POW returnee to see combat in Desert
Storm. He flew 20 missions in Iraq in a F15E. He and his wife Carol resided
in Maryland until his death Jan 29, 2009.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/debaker.htm
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