BELCHER, GLENN ARTHUR

Remains Returned

Name: Glenn Arthur Belcher
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O2
Unit: 1st Air Commando Squadron.
Date of Birth: 11 May 1942
Home City of Record: FESSENDEN ND
Date of Loss: 31 December 1967
Country of Loss:  Laos
Loss Coordinates: 171300 North 1052900 East
Status (in 1973):
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1E # 135007
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0957

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS:

REMAINS RETURNED 12/30/97
CACCF PILOT/CRASHED   BONE FRAG FOUND 94/95

No further information available at this time.
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MAJ GLENN ARTHUR BELCHER

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On November 21, 1997, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Glenn Arthur Belcher, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Belcher entered the U.S. Army from North Dakota and served with the 1st Air Commando Squadron. On December 31, 1967, he piloted an A-1E Skyraider (tail number 52-135007, call sign "Hobo 19") that took off from Pleiku, South Vietnam, as the lead of two aircraft on a daylight armed reconnaissance mission against enemy targets in Khammouan Province, Laos. While making its third bombing run at the target, the aircraft crashed for unknown reasons, killing MAJ Belcher. An aerial search was performed but a heavy enemy presence on the ground prevented the recovery of MAJ Belcher's remains at the time. In 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains believed to be from this loss, and in 1997, U.S. investigators were able to identify MAJ Belcher from these remains.

Major Belcher is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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