O'CONNOR, MICHAEL FRANCIS

Name: Michael Francis O'Connor
Rank/Branch: United States Army
Unit: Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery of the 1st Cavalry Division
Date of Birth: 1947
Home City of Record: Warren MI
Date of Loss: 04 February 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 162928 North  1073119 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
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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. Updated 2023.

REMARKS: 730305 RELEASED BY PRG

Incident: Ron was my closest friend while I was with ARA.  Ron, Adler and
Reeves all volunteered for our last mission.  I think of them often.  They
were all heroes in the truest sense of the word.  Like all of our missions,
our last mission was to save our troops under heavy fire.  It was low
overcast so we were on the deck 5-10' and took hundreds of hits (it sounded
as if we were in a hail storm).  We lost hydraulics, radios, windshield,
etc. and rolled in.

Sincerely,

Michael F. O'Connor
NamPOW member

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Michael and his wife Dawn reside in California.