MURDOCK, MICHAEL GEORGE

04/06/74 REMAINS RECOVERED  ID's 07/15/74

Name: Michael George Murdock
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E4
Unit:   Company B, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division
Date of Birth: 05 August 1946
Home City of Record: ROCKFORD WA
Date of Loss: 01 February 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 161126 North  1080923 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: CH46A
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1019

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:

04/06/74 REMAINS RECOVERED  ID's 07/15/74

CACCF/CRASH/NON-AIRCREW/QUANG NAM

No further information available at this time.
 

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02/2020

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CPL MICHAEL GEORGE MURDOCK

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On July 15, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Michael George Murdock, missing from the Vietnam War.

Corporal Murdock entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Washington and was a member of Company B, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division. On February 1, 1968, he was a member of a reconnaissance team aboard a CH-46A Sea Knight (bureau number unknown) being inserted into central Vietnam when the helicopter was hit by enemy fire and crashed west of Da Nang, killing Cpl Murdock. All other crew members and passengers aboard the aircraft survived the crash; however, they were not able to recover Cpl Murdock's remains from the downed aircraft when they left the crash site. In 1974, the North Vietnamese government returned as set of remains to U.S. custody, and analysts were able to identify them as those of Cpl Murdock.

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