KILPATRICK, LARRY RONALD
Remains ID'd 05/18/18
| Name: Larry Ronald Kilpatrick Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3 Unit: Date of Birth: 21 November 1943 Home City of Record: STONE MOUNTAIN GA Date of Loss: 18 June 1972 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 181500 North 1054700 East Status (in 1973): Missing in Action Category: 3 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A7A #153230 Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Refno: 1878 |
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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. 2024
REMARKS: DEAD
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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From: Duus, Kristen L SFC USARMY DPAA EC (US) <kristen.l.duus.mil@mail.mil>
Dear Sir/Ma'am,
Naval Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Larry R. Kilpatrick, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for on May 18.
http://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Article/1537779/
On June 18, 1972, Kilpatrick was a member of Attack Squadron One Hundred Five (VA-105), on board the USS Saratoga (CVA-60), flying an A-7A aircraft in a flight of two on a night armed reconnaissance mission over northern Vietnam. Kilpatrick's wingman lost radio contact with him outside of Ha Tinh City, after he announced he had sighted a target and was commencing an attack. After daybreak, search and rescue aircraft observed remnants of a parachute near Kilpatrick's last known location, but could not identify it as Kilpatrick's. The search and rescue team was unable to locate any aircraft wreckage.
DPAA is grateful to the government of Vietnam for their partnership in this mission.
Interment services are pending; more details will be released 7-10 days prior to scheduled funeral services.
Kilpatrick's name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with others who are unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
For more information about DPAA, visit www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa, or call 703-699-1420. You can also view Kilpatrick's personnel profile at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000BTcbEAG
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000BTcbEAG
On May 30, 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Larry Ronald
Kilpatrick, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Commander Kilpatrick entered the U.S. Navy from
Georgia and served with Attack Squadron 105. On June 18, 1972,
he piloted an A-7A Corsair II (bureau number 153230, call sign
"Canyon Passage 406") that took off in a flight of two from the
USS Saratoga (CV-60) on a night armed reconnaissance mission
over North Vietnam. The aircraft went missing and was eventually
found to have crashed in a remote area of Thua Thien-Hue
Province in South Vietnam; LCDR Kilpatrick did not survive the
incident and because search and rescue failed to locate the
aircraft wreckage, his remains were not recovered at the time of
his loss. However, the Vietnamese government eventually
repatriated human remains that DPAA identified as those of LCDR
Kilpatrick.
Lieutenant Commander Kilpatrick 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.
