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Casualty Info
Home Town Willimantic, CT
Last Address Korat RTAFB
Casualty Date Dec 05, 1969
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Laos
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery (VA) - Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1st Lt. Patrick K. Harrold and Capt. John C. Clark II were pilots assigned to an F-4E Phantom fighter jet dispatched on an operational mission over Laos on February 5, 1969. Their mission would take them to the northeast edge of the Plain of Jars in Xiangkhoang Province in Military Region II. At a point about 10 miles northwest of the city of Nong Het, the Phantom was shot down and both crew members declared Missing in Action.
His and Captain Clark's remains were found, identified, and repatriated in 1997.
Capt. Harrold was interred in Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas .