GOODRICH, EDWIN R.
REMAINS RETURNED 04/18/85
Name: Edwin R. Goodrich
Rank/Branch:O3/United States Air Force, pilot
Unit:11th TRS
Date of Birth: 06 November 1935
Home City of Record: Orlean NY
Date of Loss: 12 March 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 205700 North 1045700 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF4C
Other Personnel in Incident: John W. Clark, returnee
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK April 1997 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. 2020
REMARKS: POSS KIA DURING CAPTURE
John Clark had flown more than sixty missions over North Vietnam when he
and pilot Edwin Goodrich were downed by AAA on 12 March 1967 in western Hoa
Binh Province in North Vietnam. Both ejected, Goodwin was injured. Clark was
captured almost immediately by swarms of militia. Clark remained in North
Vietnam for almost six years during which time he contracted malaria. Edwin
Clark was released on February 18, 1973.
Goodrich was not so lucky. Although records indicated his survival after
capture was unlikely due to his injuries, his remains were not returned home
until August 14, 1985.
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01/2020
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On October 24, 1985, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now
DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Riley
Goodrich, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Colonel Goodrich, who joined the U.S. Air Force from
New York, served with the 11th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron.
On March 12, 1967, he served as the aircraft commander on board
an RF-4C Phantom II (serial number 65-877) on a
weather reconnaissance mission over Hoa Binh Province, North
Vietnam. During the mission, the Phantom was shot down.
Lieutenant Colonel Goodrich escaped from the aircraft but was
subsequently killed by enemy ground forces. Search and rescue
efforts were unable to recover his body. In 1985, the Vietnamese
government repatriated remains which were later identified as
those of Lt Col Goodrich.
Lieutenant Colonel Goodrich is memorialized on the Courts of the
Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
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