CONDIT, WILLIAM HOWARD JR.
REMAINS RETURNED
Name: William Howard Condit Jr.
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 06 February 1934
Home City of Record: WORTHINGTON OH
Date of Loss: 23 June 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 114007 North 1061317 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130 #0965
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Terry Reed, Killed in Action/Body not
Recovered
Refno: 1461
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:
CACCF CRASH/OTHER AIRCREW/MR3 12 YRS United States Air Force
No further information available at this time.
06/24/98
The Armed Forces Identification Review Board (AFIRB) has very recently
finalized approval of five identifications recommend by the Central
identification Laboratory (CILHI). Those announced as accounted for include
Commander Danforth E. White, USN, and Lt. Commander Captain Ramey L.
Carpenter, USN, missing since March 31, 1969, in Laos and Major William H.
Condit, Jr., and Lt. Terry M. Reed, both USAF, missing since June 23, 1969, in
South Vietnam. The remains of Commander White Lt. Commander Carpenter were
jointly recovered in Laos on March 3, 1997. The remains of Major Condit and
Lt. Reed were jointly recovered in south Vietnam on November 29, 1994. The
remains of one additional American, jointly recovered in South Vietnam on May
6, 1988, were also identified, but his family requested that his name not be
released.
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000pQknEEAS
On July 9, 1998, the U.S. Army Central Identification
Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI) identified the remains of Major
William Howard Condit Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Condit entered the U.S. Air Force from Ohio and was a
member of 733rd Tactical Airlift Squadron. On June 23, 1969, he
was the navigator aboard a C-130B Hercules (tail number 61-0965,
call sign "Terry 808") carrying five other crew members flying a
resupply mission to Katum, Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam.
During the mission, the aircraft was hit by enemy ground fire
and crashed in the Tan Bien mission district, killing Maj
Condit. A ground recovery team reached the crash site within an
hour; however, Maj Condit's remains could not be recovered at
the time. In 1994, a joint team reinvestigated the aircraft
wreckage and recovered human remains. Modern forensic techniques
were able to identify Maj Condit among the remains.
Major Condit is memorialized on 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.