STOW,  LILBURN RAY

Name: Lilburn Ray Stow
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force /O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 20 May 1929
Home City of Record: VICI OK
Date of Loss: 26 April 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 161630 North  1071322 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130B
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: John McDaniel, Larry Todd, KIA/BNR
Refno: 1146

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: Ground Hit, 5 remains recovered

Thua Thien near Lao border 10 NW of A Shau
                 

CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW/16 YRS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE/THUA THIEN

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress files:

South Vietnam, pre-1975: FACTS/FINDINGS/STATUS/AFLC COMMENTS
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: LILBURN ROY STOW

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed

Reel: 190

Page: 67

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 00 00 00

Date of Information: 68 04 26

Category: Casualty files


post-1975 Vietnam: JCRC Refugee Report RP88-046, Hearsay of the Recovery of
the Alleged Remains and Dog Tag of American Serviceman Lilburn R. Stow
(Refno 1146-0-2)
Country: post-1975 Vietnam

Name: Lilburn R. Stow

Subjects: Dog tag; Remains; Ho Chi Minh Municipality; Grave site

Comments: JCRC report evaluation msg dtg 141925ZNov88; action record;
Biographic/Site Report as of 2 Oct 1986; Analyst's notes; and source data
sheets

Reel: 141

Source Number: 8094

Page: 1-11

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 88 06 01

Date of Information: 88 02 00

Document Number: 012210ZJun88

Originator: JCRC

Category: Source Reports


South Vietnam, pre-1975: ANALYSIS OF MATERIAL EVIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH REFNO
1146
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: LILBURN ROY STOW

Subjects: Crash site

Reel: 190

Page: 62-63

Type of Document: Message

Date of Report: 92 10 27

Date of Information: 68 04 26

Document Number: 270822ZOCT92

Originator: JTF-FA

Category: Casualty files

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02/2020

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On April 26, 1968, a C-130B Hercules (tail number 60-0298) with a crew of eight carried out an air drop mission in Thua Thien-Hue Province, South Vietnam. During the mission, the Hercules was hit by enemy fire that damaged its tail section. The pilot attempted an emergency landing at A Luoi Airfield in Thua Thien-Hue Province. As the aircraft came in to land, the plane’s damaged tail section broke off, causing the Hercules to crash and explode. A number of eyewitnesses to the shootdown stated that it appeared that the crew was discharging cargo from the tail section prior to its separation from the fuselage.  One observer on the ground said he saw something (possibly a person) leaping from the tail of the aircraft. Subsequent aerial observation of the crash site revealed no sign of survivors. The remains of five members of the aircraft’s crew were eventually recovered and identified; however, the other three crew members are still unaccounted for.

Major Lilburn Ray Stow, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Oklahoma, was a member of the 772nd Tactical Airlift Squadron. He was the aircraft commander of the Hercules when it went down, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains have not been recovered. Today, Major Stow is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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