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Cook, Glenn Richard (Cookie), Capt.
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On 21 Oct 1969 Captain Glenn Cook, 21st TASS, and Major John Espenshied, 558th TFS, were aboard an O-2A Cessna observation aircraft controlling an air strike in the hills about 25 miles west of Nha Trang when the aircraft went down. Captain Glenn Cook's remains have not been located.
This Veteran has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii with another in Sunset Memory Gardens Mint Hill, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Glenn Richard Cook was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of Frank and Eleanor Cook. He graduated from Garinger High School in 1963 and then from the Citadel in 1967.
On October 21, 1969, he was the Forward Air Control Pilot of the Cessna Skymaster Observation Aircraft (O-2A) #68-10975 along with his Observer, Colonel John L Espenshied. They were on a mission over the borders of Tuyen Duc, Ninh Thuan and Khanh Provinces in South Vietnam when their aircraft was shot down by hostile fire. Their remains were not recovered and they were declared missing in action.
At the time, there could be no way of knowing whether the enemy found the crash, or whether they had been killed or survived. Neither airman was released with other American POWs in 1973. In December, 1988, the Vietnamese discovered the body of John L Espenshied and returned him to US control. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Glenn R Cook has never been recovered.
