MCIVER, ALEXANDER

08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED  ID'd 06/12/74

Name: Alexander Mciver
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:  345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing
Date of Birth: 09 September 1937
Home City of Record: SANTA MONICA CA
Date of Loss: 03 May 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 113924 North  1063752 East
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130E
Missions:

Other Personnel in Incident: Joseph Hopper, Freddie Slater, Don Unger,
Thomas Widerquist, all remains returned 1972

Refno: 1840

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.

REMARKS: 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED  ID'd 06/12/74

CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW/BINH LONG

No further information available at this time.
 

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CAPT ALEXANDER MCIVER

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On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Alexander McIver, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain McIver joined the U.S. Air Force from California and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the mission, and Capt McIver died in the incident. Once fighting in the area had subsided, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of the C-130E's crew; however, Capt McIver's remains could not be individually identified until 1974. 

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