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Casualty Info
Home Town Muscatine
Last Address Nakhon Phanom RTAFB
Casualty Date Sep 16, 1972
Cause Non Hostile- Died of Illness, Other Injury
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Okinawa
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Memorial Park Cemetery - Muscatine, Iowa
Aircraft/Missile Information
In 1970 a detachment of the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing (later the 554th Reconnaissance Squadron) known as the "Vampires," conducted the first operational QU-22B flights. During a typical mission, the QU-22B orbited near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, picking up signals from Igloo White acoustic and vibration sensing ground units and relaying them to the Information Surveillance Center (or "Task Force Alpha") at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base.
TECHNICAL NOTES: Armament: None Engine: Continental GTSIO-520-G engine of 375 hp Maximum speed: 204 mph Endurance: 6 hours manned and 10 hours unmanned Operating altitude: 30,000 unmanned and below 25,000 ft. with pilot Span: 39.45 ft. (with tip tanks) Length: 26.67 ft. Height: 8.45 ft. Weight: 4,800 lbs. gross (estimated)
