WYNNE, PATRICK EDWARD

03/18/77 SRV RETURNED REMAINS

Name:  Patrick Edward Wynne
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 08 October 1941
Home City of Record: EAU GALLIE FL
Date of Loss: 08 August 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 213300 North  1064600 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #7560
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Lawrence Golberg, remains returned
Refno: 0423

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: 03/18/77 SRV RETURNED REMAINS TO PCOM

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT

Border Ha Bac/Lang Son  25miles SW of China

US Air Force Academy Graduate 1963

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress files:

Presidential Direction on the Identification of Missing Servicemen
Name: Patrick E. Wynne

Subjects: Remains

Comments: Related message and agenda for 23 Jan 75 PW/MIA Task Group Meeting
enclosed

Reel: PDS29

Type of Document: Memorandum

Date of Report: 77 04 06

Date of Information: 77 03 00

Document Number: 292055zmar77

Originator: USAF

Category: SHIELDS FILES

 

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02/2020

MAJ PATRICK EDWARD WYNNE

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On March 31, 1977, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Patrick Edward Wynne, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Wynne joined the U.S. Air Force from Arkansas and was a member of the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On August 8, 1966, he was the pilot of an F-4C Phantom II that took part in an armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. Major Wynne's aircraft was damaged by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, forcing it to fall out of formation. As U.S. investigators would learn after the war, both members of the Phantom's crew bailed out over Duong Hoa Village, where they were captured and killed. Immediate search and recovery efforts were unsuccessful in locating the aircraft or its crew. In 1977, the Vietnamese government returned remains that were identified as those of Maj Wynne.

Major Wynne is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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