KLUTE, KARL EDWIN

Name: Karl Edwin Klute
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 16 July 1936
Home City of Record: RICHMOND IN
Date of Loss: 14 March 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 93518 North  1060537 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100D #3793
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0273

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/PILOT/6 YRS USAF/SA XUYEN

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CAPT KARL EDWIN KLUTE

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Captain Karl Edwin Klute entered the U.S. Air Force from Indiana and served with the 90th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On March 14, 1966, he piloted a single-seat F-100D Super Sabre (tail number 55-3793) on a combat mission over South Vietnam. While making a strafing pass against enemy targets near Soc Trang, his aircraft crashed and exploded in the vicinity of GC XR 200 600. He was not observed to eject from his aircraft before it hit the ground. Enemy forces in the area precluded search efforts, and Capt Klute remains unaccounted-for. Today, Captain Klute is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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