CRESSEY, DENNIS CLARKE
11/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 750626
Name: Dennis Clarke Cressey
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2
Unit: 390 TFS
Date of Birth: 09 July 1946
Home City of Record: CHEYENNE WY
Date of Loss: 12 May 72
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 165422 North 1065240 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4E
Missions: 183
Other Personnel in Incident: SAMUEL ADAIR, PFOD, remains returned
Refno: 1857
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. Updated 2020.
REMARKS:
11/74 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 750626
CACCF/CRASH/QUANG TRI/AIRCREW
Graduated Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO in 1968. He was
involved with the Big Brothers program there.
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000y6eB1EAI
On June 26, 1975, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand
(CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Dennis Clarke
Cressey, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Cressey entered the U.S. Air Force from Wyoming and
served with the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 366th Tactical
Fighter Wing. On May 12, 1972, he was a weapons system officer
aboard an F-4E Phantom II (tail number unknown) that took off
from Da Nang Air Base on a forward air control mission over
Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. The aircraft crashed for
unknown reasons and Capt Cressey did not survive the incident.
Aerial searches failed to locate the crash site, and his body
was not recovered at the time. In 1974, a U.S. search team
located the crash site and recovered human remains that U.S.
analysts eventually identified as those of Capt Cressey.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.