OFFUTT, GARY PHELPS

REMAINS RETURNED 03/97

Name: Gary Phelps Offutt
Rank/Branch: O2/United States Air Force,Pilot
Unit:
Date of Birth: 04 April 1940
Home City of Record: Stewartsville MO
Date of Loss: 01 October 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam, Phong Dinh
Loss Coordinates: 095916N 1052333E
Status (in 1973): Body not recoverd
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100D, #3543
Incident No: 0159

Other Personnel in Incident: none

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK March 1997 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews, newspaper reports. 2020

REMARKS:

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                                                [rtw0326.97 03/27/96]
Remains of U.S. soldier found

    WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuter) - The remains of a U.S. pilot killed
during an air strike in the Vietnam War have been returned to the United
States for burial, the Defence Department said Wednesday.....

 

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                                                   [sjnp328.97 03/30/97]

Bittersweet reunion: Family finds closure
Missing No More

SON SAYS GOODBYE TO FATHER HE BARELY KNEW
BY RONA KOBELL.
ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS

For nearly 32 years, Gregory Offutt has dreamed of holding his father
one last time.

He and his family have awaited a reunion ever since 1st Lt. Gary Phelps
Offutt .....
 

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02/2020

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1ST LT GARY PHELPS OFFUTT

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On March 6, 1997, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of First Lieutenant Gary Phelps Offutt, missing from the Vietnam War.

First Lieutenant Offutt entered the U.S. Air Force from Missouri and was a member of the 429th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On October 1, 1965, he piloted an F-100D Super Sabre (tail number 55-3543) on a strafing mission near Can Tho, South Vietnam. During the mission, his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed, and 1st Lt Offutt was killed in the incident. Enemy activity in the loss area prevented the recovery of 1st Lt Offutt's body at the time. Between 1993 and 1995, joint U.S./Vietnamese teams visited the crash site and recovered remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of 1st Lt Offutt. 

First Lieutenant Offutt is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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