CHARLES, NORRIS ALPHONZO
Name: Norris Alphonzo Charles
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit: ATTACK CARRIER AIR WING 15
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: TAMPA FL
Date of Loss: 30 December 1971
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 184500 North 1055000 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: David Hoffman, pilot, returnee
Refno:
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: 720925 RELEASED BY HANOI
No further information available at this time.
2003
He has raised a family and resides in CA.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1972/09/17/Three-POWs-released-by-Hanoi/3381505452192/
SEPTEMBER 17, 1972
TOKYO (UPI) -- North Vietnam released three American prisoners of war to a U.S.
peace
group in downtown Hanoi Sunday, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
The North Vietnamese news agency, in a broadcast monitored here, said the three
were
handed over after a brief ceremony.