CHESNUTT, CHAMBLESS M.
REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
| Name: Chambless M. Chesnutt Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3 Unit: 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron Date of Birth: 13 August 1934 Home City of Record: LITTLE ROCK AR Date of Loss: 30 September 1965 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 210559 North 1055857 East Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #0680 Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Michael Chwan, remains returned 1985 Refno: 0156 |
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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 and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020
REMARKS: PROB DEAD
REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
CACCF CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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The military ID card of an airman who went missing in action in Vietnam is finally coming home.
Though Air
Force Capt. Chambless M. Chesnutt's remains were
returned in 1985, the card is the only personal
item of his ever recovered from Vietnam, and a treasured
memento for his now-grown children. It will be presented
in a Friday ceremony to Chesnutt's son, retired Texas Air National
Guard Maj. Garry Chesnutt....
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000qFI9kEAG
On April 8, 1985, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH,
now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Chambless Marshall
Chesnutt, missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Chesnutt joined the U.S. Air Force from Tennessee and was
a member of the 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 30,
1965, he was the aircraft commander of an F-4C Phantom II (tail
number 640680) on a strike mission against enemy targets in
Vietnam. As the flight regrouped to return to base after the
mission, Maj Chesnutt's Phantom was shot down by anti-aircraft
fire and he was killed. Heavy enemy presence in the area
prevented attempts to reach the crash site at that time. In
March of 1985, the Vietnamese government returned remains to
American authorities that were eventually identified as those of
Maj Chesnutt.
Major Chesnutt is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at
the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.
