MCRAE, DAVID EDWARD
Remains Identified
Name: David Edward McRae
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit: VF 154
Date of Birth: 30 November 1938
Home City of Record: DECATUR GA
Date of Loss: 02 December 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212058 North 1062358 East
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: DAVE REHMANN, returnee
Refno:
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: CMDR THINKS SUBJ DID NOT GET OUT
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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01/2020
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On September 13, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now
DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander David
Edward McRae, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Commander McRae, who joined the U.S. Navy from
Georgia, served with Fighter Squadron 154, embarked aboard the
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43). On July 19, 1966, he piloted an F-4B
Phantom (bureau number 151014) on a combat mission over Ha Bac
Province, North Vietnam. During the mission, the Phantom was
shot down and LCDR McRae was killed. Search efforts were unable
to reach the crash site during the war due to enemy presence in
the area. In 1996, a joint U.S./Vietnamese investigative team
located the crash site of the Phantom and recovered remains
which were later identified as those of LCDR Mcrae.
Lieutenant Commander McRae 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.