WHITE, DANFORTH ELLITHORNE (some records show EllithorPE)

REMAINS RETURNED and ID'd 06/24/98

Name: Danforth Ellithorne White
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O5
Unit:
Date of Birth: 17 June 1930
Home City of Record: STATE COLLEGE PA
Date of Loss: 31 March 1969
Country of Loss: LAOS
Loss Coordinates: 173958 North  1050957 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: FA5C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Ramey Carpenter, KIA/BNR
Refno: 1420

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: KHAMMOUANE - 5 miles NW  of NHOMMARATH

CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/14 YRS UNITED STATES NAVY

No further information available at this time.

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06/24/98
The Armed Forces Identification Review Board (AFIRB) has very recently
finalized approval of five identifications recommend by the Central
identification Laboratory (CILHI).  Those announced as accounted for include
Commander Danforth E. White, USN, and Lt. Commander Captain Ramey L.
Carpenter, USN, missing since March 31, 1969, in Laos and Major William H.
Condit, Jr., and Lt. Terry M. Reed, both USAF, missing since June 23, 1969, in
South Vietnam.  The remains of Commander White Lt. Commander Carpenter were
jointly recovered in Laos on March 3, 1997.  The remains of Major Condit and
Lt. Reed were jointly recovered in south Vietnam on November 29, 1994.  The
remains of one additional American, jointly recovered in South Vietnam on May
6, 1988, were also identified, but his family requested that his name not be
released.

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Library of Congress Files:

LA: CDR Danforth Ellithorpe White, USN, 594691/1310 and [Name] USNR,
690122/1325, Missing in Action: Report of Circumstances and Recommendations
Concerning
Country: LA

Name: Danforth E. White

Subjects: Aircraft downed; Missing; Crash site; Killed

Reel: 180

Page: 68-72D

Type of Document: Letter

Date of Report: 69 04 15

Date of Information: 69 03 31

Originator: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65)

Category: Casualty files



LA: CDR Danforth Ellithorpe White, USN (Deceased); Release of Information in
Case of/ Memo Traffic Between NMPC, DIA, JCRC, and CILHI
Country: LA

Name: Danforth E. White

Subjects: Killed; Aircraft downed; Crash site; Khammouan Province

Comments: Includes names of additional unaccounted for personnel.

Reel: 180

Page: 114-124

Type of Document: Memorandum

Date of Report: 86 00 00

Date of Information: 69 03 31

Category: Casualty files

 

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02/2020

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CDR DANFORTH ELLITHORPE WHITE

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On July 9, 1998, the Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Commander Danforth Ellithorpe White, missing from the Vietnam War.

Commander White entered the U.S. Navy from Pennsylvania and was a member of Reconnaissance Heavy Attack Squadron 6, Carrier Air Wing 9. On March 31, 1969, he piloted an RA-5C Vigilante (bureau number 150842, call sign "Field Goal 604") that launched from the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) on a combat reconnaissance mission over Laos. While positioning the aircraft for a run at the target, CDR White's RA-5C exploded in midair for unknown reasons. The aircraft crashed and burned at the base of a ridge and CDR White was killed in the crash. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1997, a joint U.S./Laotian team investigated the crash site and recovered human remains, and modern forensics techniques identified CDR White from among the remains recovered.

Commander White is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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