BRACEY, LESTER JR.
08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 06/12/74
Name: Lester Bracey Jr.
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/E4
Unit:
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record:
Date of Loss: 03 May 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 113805 North 1063610 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not Recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Joseph Hopper, Alexander McIver, Freddie
Slater, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist -- all Presumptive Finding of Death
with remains returned 720817
Refno: 1840
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: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 06/12/74
NOT ON WALL
No further information available at this time.
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Service Member
SSGT LESTER BRACEY
On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand
(CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Lester
Bracey, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant Bracey joined the U.S. Air Force from New York
and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th
Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member
aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission
near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the
mission, and SSgt Bracey died in the incident. Once fighting in
the area had subsided, search and rescue teams recovered the
remains of most of the crew; however, SSgt Bracey's remains
could not be individually identified until 1974.
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