CHORLINS, RICHARD DAVID
Accounted for Jan. 17, 2015.
Name: Richard David Chorlins
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2
Unit: 602nd Special Operations Squadron
Date of Birth: 07/16/1945
Home City of Record: UNIVERSITY CITY MO
Date of Loss: 11 January 1970
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 174000 North 1054358 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1549
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:
CACCF CRASH/PILOT/POSTHUMOUS PROMOTION
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From: "Robert Jacobs" <jakesresearch@earthlink.net>
Subject: Richard David Chorlins, MIA, Laos
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:57:14 -0800
I have been busy again. Looking into Chorlins loss. There is not much info
on him.
I have found that he was a 1967 graduate of the Air Force Academy. He was
with the 602nd Special Operations Squadron, Nakhom Phenom, RTAFB, Thailand.
His loss coordinates in MGRS are:
WE777533.
Regards,
Bob Jacobs
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Capt. David Chorlins, U.S.
Air Force, 602nd Special Operations Squadron, 34th Tactical Group,
was lost
Jan. 11, 1970, in Laos. He was accounted for Jan. 17, 2015.
He will be
buried with full military honors.
Funeral Information:
Rick will be laid to rest on Apr. 14,
2015 at USAFA, Colorado Springs
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Missing flier to finally be at rest
A pilot whose loss over the skies of Laos more than 45 years ago
faded in the fog of the Indochina
War will finally be laid to rest next
month, and
a friend from Bossier City will be there to pay last respects.
Retired Brig. Gen. Peyton Cole, a former 2nd Bomb Wing commander and
Vietnam War pilot,
plans to attend funeral services at the Air Force
Academy in Colorado April 14 for Capt. Richard D. Chorlins......
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http://www.stripes.com/shot-down-in-vietnam-airman-returns-home-to-air-force-academy-1.340290
Shot down in Vietnam, airman returns 'home' to Air Force Academy
COLORADO SPRINGS (Tribune News Service) — Six academy pallbearers carried a
wooden casket shrouded with an
American flag as they marched under a cloudless
sky Tuesday morning.
They took seven steps, paused and took seven more steps.
The ritual was repeated until the processional had halted seven times on its way
to the resting place for Capt. Richard David
Chorlins in a Jewish burial custom
to express grief and prolong saying goodbye....
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000oMgKEEA0
On January 20, 2015, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC,
now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Richard David
Chorlins, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Chorlins entered the U.S. Air Force from Missouri and
served with the 602nd Special Operations Squadron. On January
11, 1970, he piloted an A-1H Skyraider (tail number unknown)
flying as the lead aircraft in a two-plane flight on a combat
mission over Laos. His aircraft crashed into a mountainside
while attacking enemy targets in Khammouan Province, Laos,
killing Capt Chorlins. His body was not recovered at the time of
his loss. However, in 2003, the Department of Defense received a
package containing human remains from an American citizen who
had previously received them from a Vietnamese local living near
Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; modern forensic techniques were
eventually able to identify the remains as those of Capt
Chorlins.
Captain Chorlins is memorialized in 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.