WILSON, GORDON SCOTT

REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86

Name: Gordon Scott Wilson
Branch/Rank: United States Air Force/O2
Unit: 480 TFS
Date of Birth: 03 June 1940
Home City of Record: HOBART IN
Date of Loss: 22 November 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212958 North  1054156 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Joseph Crecca, 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. 2020

REMARKS: SEEN SUBJ IN PARA

EGRESS HIT BY SAM LIMP IN CHUTE

REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86

SNYOPSIS: Captain Joseph Crecca and Capt Gordon Wilsom were shot down by
a surface to air missile while on a strike mission. Crecca survived 6
yrs 3 months in captivity. He was released  February 14, 1973.

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress files:

North Vietnam, pre-1975: Biographic/Site Report
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Gordon Scott Wilson

Subjects: Missing; Aircraft downed; Live sighting; Nam Ha Province

Reel: 53

Source Number: 5643

Page: 141-143

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 81 01 24

Date of Information: 66 08 14

Originator: JCRC

Category: Source Reports

NVN: JTFFA/ BIO/SITE UPDATE REFNO 500'S/ Biographic Site Report for REFNO
0527
Country: NVN

Name: WILSON, GORDON S.

Subjects: Crash site; BAC THAI PROVINCE; DAI TU DISTRICT; HANOI; HOAN KIEM
DISTRICT; PW Camp; PW transit

Reel: 367

Page: 60-63

Type of Document: Automated Data Extract

Date of Report: 94 02 02

Date of Information: 66 11 22

Originator: JTFFA

Category: JTFFA FILES

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On October 22, 1986, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Gordon Scott Wilson, missing from the Vietnam War.

Major Wilson joined the U.S. Air Force from Indiana and served with the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On November 22, 1966, he served as the aircraft commander on board an F4-C Phantom (tail number 64-755) on a combat mission over enemy targets in Bac Thai Province, North Vietnam. During the mission, the Phantom was struck by a surface-to-air missile and Major Wilson was killed. Hostile presence in the area inhibited search efforts for him or his remains at the time. In 1986, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains to the U.S. which were later identified as those of Maj Wilson.

Major Wilson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
 

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