From: Duus, Kristen L SFC USARMY DPAA EC (US) [mailto:kristen.l.duus.mil@mail.mil]
Sent: 18 August, 2017 07:37
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Airman Killed During Vietnam War Accounted For (Dinan)
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Air Force
Reserve
1st Lt. David T. Dinan, III, killed during the
Vietnam
War, has now been accounted for.
http://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Article/1282266/airman-
killed-during-vietnam-war-accounted-for-dinan/
On March 19,
1969, Dinan was a member of the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron,
288th Tactical
Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force, and was the pilot of the number
two aircraft in
a flight of two F-105s on a strike mission over northern
Laos. During the
second strafing pass over the target, Dinan transmitted a
distress
message. The Forward Air Controller then observed Dinan's parachute
enter the
jungle, as well as an aircraft crash. Search and rescue aircraft
conducted an
aerial search and located a parachute and confirmed the death
of the pilot,
however, due to enemy fire in the area and the hazardous
location, his
body could not be recovered. The U.S. Air Force subsequently
reported Dinan
as killed in action.
Interment services are pending; a formal
notification will be released 7-10
days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Dinan's name is
recorded on the Walls of the Missing at an American Battle
Monuments
Commission site along with the others who are missing from the
Vietnam War. A
rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has
been accounted
for.
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information about DPAA, visit
www.dpaa.mil,
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at
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or call 703-699-1420.
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