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Read, Charles Harold W., Jr., Col.
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Colonel Read and his co-pilot 1st Lt. Melvin Ladwig were flying an F-4 (#66-869) from the 497th TFS at Ubon RTAFB, Thailand tasked with an armed reconnaissance mission in southern North Vietnam. After attacking a storage site some 17 miles northwest of Dong Hoi, the flight lead saw a large fireball on the ground and realized it was his wingman's aircraft. There was no evidence that either crewman had ejected before ground impact.
