BROWN, FRANK MONROE JR.
Name: Frank Monroe Brown Jr.
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit: Fighter Squadron
151, USS Constellation
Date of Birth: 18 December 1938
Home City of Record: TUNKHANNOCK PA
Date of Loss: 19 September 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 184217 North 1073628 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B #152315
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: DAVID HENRY, Killed in Action/Body not
Recovered
Refno: 0461
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. 2020
REMARKS: Gulf of Tonkin, 120 miles out, probably near ship
CACCF CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On September 19, 1966, an F-4B Phantom II (bureau number 152315) carrying two crew members performed a catapult launch from the deck of the USS Constellation (CVA 64), stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin. When it was about one mile forward of the ship, the Phantom crashed into the water and exploded. A search of the crash site was conducted, but no sign of either occupant of the Phantom could be located. Both crew members remain unaccounted for.
Lieutenant Frank Monroe Brown Jr., who joined the U.S. Navy from Pennsylvania, was a member of Fighter Squadron 151. He was the pilot of the Phantom when it crashed, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains were not recovered. Today, Lieutenant Brown 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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