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Casualty Info
Home Town Marianna
Last Address Bien Hoa AB
Casualty Date Feb 11, 1962
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Lam Dong (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Oak Ridge Cemetery - Inverness, Florida
"The mission was to drop leaflets with a New Year's message from President Kennedy over the high plateau area of central Vietnam....As the aircraft swept low near the village of Blao, a concealed enemy force opened fire. The plane was struck by small arms fire and crashed in the mountains southwest of the village. A joint US/Vietnamese rescue team was sent to the crash site." Remains were recovered. The following crew and passengers were aboard the aircraft:
2 unknown South Vietnamese Air Force personnel
U.S. Army Personnel:
2nd Lt. Lewis Walling
SP4 glen Merrihew
6 USAF Personnel:
Capt. Edward Kissam
Capt. Joseph Fahey
1st Lt Jack Le Tourneau
1st Lt Stanley Hartson
TSgt Floyd Frazier
A1C Robert Westfall Source: http:/wwwvvmf.org/thewall
A street (Hartson Street) is named after 1st Lt. Stanley G. Hartson at Hurlburt Field in Florida, honored among five airmen "All were killed on February 11, 1962, when their C-47 aircraft crashed while flying over South Vietnam."
Source: U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet - Namesakes for Hurlburt Field Streets, http://www.hurlburt.af.mil/library/factsheets
Vietnam War: US Military Casualty Record show Stanley Gerald Hartson was killed in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), fixed wing air casualty. Buried next to Stanley W. & Phyllis Hartson
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Inverness, Citrus County, Florida, USA
Created by: Tracy Price, Recorded added: Oct 5, 2008, Find A Grave Memorial # 30310862