CHWAN, MICHAEL DANIEL
REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
| Name: Michael Daniel Chwan Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2 Unit: 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron Date of Birth: 26 October 1938 Home City of Record: BAYONE NJ Date of Loss: 30 September 1965 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 210559 North 1055857 East Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C #0680 Missions: |
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Other Personnel in Incident: Chambliss Chesnutt, remains returned 1985
Refno: 0156
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. 2018
REMARKS: PROB DEAD
REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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On April 8, 1985, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH,
now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Michael Daniel Chwan,
missing from the Vietnam War.
Captain Chwan joined the U.S. Air Force from New Jersey and was
a member of the 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 30,
1965, he was the pilot of an F-4C Phantom II (tail number
640680) on a strike mission against enemy targets in Vietnam. As
the flight regrouped to return to base after the mission, Capt
Chwan's Phantom was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and he was
killed. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented efforts to
reach the crash site at the time. In March 1985, the Vietnamese
government returned remains to American authorities that were
eventually identified as those of Capt Chwan.
Captain Chwan is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at
the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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