EMRICH, ROGER GENE

REM RET ID 02/25/97

Name: Roger Gene Emrich
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 08 July 1941
Home City of Record: MIAMI FL
Date of Loss: 17 November 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 204800 North  1060400 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: William McGrath, remains returned 1985
Refno: 0911

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: POSS DEAD

CACCF/CRASH/RADAR INTERCEPT OFFICER/MISSILE HIT

REM RET ID 02/25/97

No further information available at this time.

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LCDR ROGER GENE EMRICH

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On February 6, 1997, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Roger Gene Emrich, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Emrich entered the U.S. Navy from Florida and served with Fighter Squadron 161, Carrier Air Wing 15, embarked aboard the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43). On November 17, 1967, he served as the radar intercept officer aboard an F-4B Phantom (bureau number 151488) on a combat air patrol mission over North Vietnam. During the mission, the Phantom was shot down by an enemy surface-to-air missile, killing LCDR Emrich. His body could not be recovered from the crash site at the time due to the presence of enemy forces nearby. In 1995, a joint search team located and excavated this Phantom's crash site, recovering remains which were later identified as those of LCDR Emrich.

Lieutenant Commander Emrich is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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