NORRINGTON, GILES RODERICK
Name: Giles Roderick Norrington
Rank/Branch: O3/United States Navy, pilot
Unit: RVAH 1
Date of Birth: 27 Sept 35
Home City of Record: Springfield OH
Date of Loss: 05 May 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 181800 N 1053800 E
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C
Missions: 22
Other Personnel in Incident: Richard Tangeman, Returnee
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK April 1997 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Update in 2001 with
information from Capt. Norrington. 2023
REMARKS: 730314 RELEASED BY DRV
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Giles Norrington retired from the United States Navy as a Captain. He and
his wife Eileen reside in North Ridgeville, Ohio.
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Memories of Vietnam
Club Honors Ex-POW on Anniversary of His Release
By Lan Nguyen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 27 1997; Page V01
The Washington Post
Navy Lt. Giles Norrington was making his 22nd reconnaissance flight into
North Vietnamese territory when communist rebels shot off the right wing of
his RA-5C Vigilante. The plane erupted into a fireball. As Norrington and
his navigator, Richard Tangeman, tried to escape, Norrington thought, "It's
taking a long time to die."......
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