HAIFLEY, MICHAEL FIRESTONE
REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85
| Name: Michael Firestone Haifley Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3 Unit: Date of Birth: 19 October 1946 Home City of Record: LISBON OH Date of Loss: 28 December 1972 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 204500 North 1054800 East Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Al Agnew, returnee Refno: 1228 |
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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
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REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85
EGRESS PLANE BLEW UP PILOT AGNEW EJECTED UNKNOWN IF HAIFLEY DID
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On October 7, 1985, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii
(CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Michael
Firestone Haifley, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Haifley joined the U.S. Navy from Ohio and was a
member of Reconnaissance Attack (Heavy) Squadron 13. On December
28, 1972, he was a crew member aboard an RA-5C Vigilante on a
reconnaissance mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. The
Vigilante was shot down by an enemy aircraft during its mission,
and LT Haifley was killed in the incident. Search and recovery
efforts for the downed aircraft's crew were unsuccessful. In
August 1985, the Vietnamese government returned LT Haifley's
remains to U.S. custody, with forensic analysis confirming the
identification shortly thereafter.
Lieutenant Haifley is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing
at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.