Armstrong, Frank Alton, III, Maj

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Major Frank Armstong was the son of the famous Lt. General Frank Alton Armstrong, Jr..

Major Frank A. Armstrong, III, entered into the Air Force in 1952. He served in various capacities, primarily as a fighter pilot over his career largely in West Germany, until he was lost over Laos.

On 6 October 1967, he was the pilot of an A-1E on an ordnance delivery mission. He was the lead aircraft in a flight of two A-1Es from the 1st Air Commando Squadron based at Pleiku. (Callsigns "Hobo/Sandy").

His aircraft was struck by hostile ground fire over Attopeu Province, Laos, near the tri-border area of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. According to other flight members, Maj. Armstrong did not have time to parachute out of the aircraft as it crashed to the ground in an inverted position.

He remains MIA.

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http://veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.asp?ID=622 (career details)
http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/a/a373.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14636165
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/armstrong%3Dfrank#
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=24060

Air Commando by Philip D. Chinnery
http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/rso/squadrons_flights_pages/0001sos.asp

http://skyraider.org/skyassn/skysqdhist/1sqdhist.htm
http://www.virtualwall.org/da/ArmstrongFA01a.htm
http://rickelodeon.com/armstrong/

http://members.cox.net/mia/
http://thewall-usa.com/guest.asp?recid=1369

http://www.findagrave.com/ (photo)

Addendum:
A-1 Express-36 (67-09) class at Hurlburt AFB
http://www.skyraider.org/skyassn/classpics/hurlphot.htm