SHORE EDWARD RIDDICK, JR.
RIP 08 February 2023
Name: Edward Riddick Shore Jr.
Branch/Rank: UNITED STATES ARMY/O3
Unit: Transportation Corps
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: Knoxville, TN
Date of Loss: 15-May-61
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 193000 North 1030000 East
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: H34
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: JOHN MCMORROW, GRANT WOLFKILL, returnees
Refno: 0008
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. 2024
REMARKS: 620815 RELEASED AIR AMERICA PILOT
No further information available at this time.
| Subject: | Update information |
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| Date: | Tue, 26 Dec 2017 06:58:01 +0000 (UTC) |
| From: | Justin Jackson-Mann |
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Hi:
I found the obituary for Grant Wolfkill http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/w/w134.htm with
some
more information about him at http://www.usmccca.org/archives/11156 which also has his photograph in case you want to add it to your site.
His full name was Grant Fassett Wolfkill.
His DOB is November 29, 1922. He died on June 14, 2017 at his residence
in Shelton, Washington
at age 94.
He worked for NBC as a field producer. While with NBC, Grant was
assigned to cover a pending peace
conference in Laos. His helicopter was shot down over Laos, and he, the pilot Army Captain Edward R. Shore, Jr. and a Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John P. McMorrow were captured, imprisoned and shackled for fifteen-months by the communist Pathet Lao. He was released on August 17, 1962 with Shore and McMorrow, along with Special Forces Sergeant Orville R. Ballenger and Army Major Lawrence R. Bailey,
The aircraft information is at http://www.helis.com/database/cn/18772/
The Military Times has a webpage for Edward Shore
https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/s/s171.htm which
gives his full name as Edward Riddick Shore, Jr. and has a photograph of him at http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=27975 and his home of record is Knoxville Tennessee
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| Subject: | News article from the Adirondack Enterprise dated August 17, 1962 |
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| Date: | Sat, 6 Jan 2018 13:03:10 +0000 (UTC) |
| From: | Justin Jackson-Mann |
Five Americans freed by Reds in Vietnam
VIENTIANE American , Laos (AP)—Five Americans and a Filipino held
captive for more than a year by
pro-Communist forces were released today.
The men, who had all grown beards during their captivity, were cheered
by a crowd of several hundred
as they emerged from the twin-engine Soviet plane that brought them to Vientiane from Pathet Lao headquarters in the Plaine des Jarres.
Those released were Maj. Lawrence Bailey, Laurel, Md., assistant
military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane; John McMorrow,
Brooklyn, N.Y.; John Shore Jr., Galloway, Tenn.; Sgt. Orville Ballenger,
Columbus, Ohio; NBC cameraman Grant Wolfkill of Shelton, Wash., and
Lorenzo Frigillana of the Philippines...
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Obituary relaying the passing of POW Edward Shore, https://www.craigfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Edward-Shore/#!/Obituary CR
MORE INFO http://www.veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=1967