UNGER, DON LEE
08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 06/12/74
Name: Don Lee Unger
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/03
Unit: 345th Tactical
Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing
Date of Birth: 26 July 1945
Home City of Record: LAKE WORTH FL
Date of Loss: 03 May 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 113924 North 1063752 East
Status (in 1973): Remains Recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C130 E
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Lester Bracy (Bracey), Joseph Hopper,
Alexander McIver, Thomas Widerquist, Freddie Slater, all remains
recovered
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. 2020
REMARKS:
08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID'd 06/12/74
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/BINH LONG
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand
(CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Don Lee
Unger, missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Unger joined the U.S. Air Force from Florida 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
Unger was killed in the crash. Once fighting had stopped in the
area, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of
the crew; however, Capt Unger's remains could not be
individually identified until 1974.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.