SLATER, FREDDIE LEON
08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
ID'd 06/12/74
Name: Freddie Leon Slater
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/E5
Unit: 345th
Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing
Date of Birth: 01 April 1938
Home City of Record: BALTIMORE MD
Date of Loss: 03 May 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 113924 North 1063752 East
Status (in 1973): Body Recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper,
Alexander McIver, Don Unger, Thomas Widerquist, all remains recovered
Refno: 1840
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: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG
No further information available at this time.
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02/2020
On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand
(CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant
Freddie Leon Slater, missing from the Vietnam War.
Staff Sergeant Slater joined the U.S. Air Force from Maryland
and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th
Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member
aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission
near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the
mission, and SSgt Slater was killed in the incident. Once
fighting in the area subsided, search and rescue teams recovered
the remains of most of the crew; however, SSgt Slater's remains
could not be individually identified until 1974.
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