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| WILLIAMS, JAMES RANDALL
Remains Identified 10/28/00. Click Here for more information |
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| Name: James Randall Williams
Rank/Branch: E4/US Air Force Unit: 314th
Tactical Airlift Wing Nha Trang Airbase,
South Vietnam Date of Birth: 28 March
1945: Home City of Record:Charlotte NC
Date of Loss: 29 December 1967 Country
of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates:
220900N 1032200E (UK315501) Status (in
1973): Missing In Action Category: 4
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: C130E
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On December 29, 1967, a C130E aircraft
departed Nha Trang Airbase shortly after
midnight on an operational mission over
North Vietnam. The eleven man crew
aboard the aircraft included Maj.Charles
P. Claxton;Capt. Edwin N.Osborne Jr.
and Capt. Gerald G. Van Buren (all
listed as pilots); and crewmen SSgt.
Edward J. Darcy SSgt. Gean P. Clapper
SSgt. Wayne A. Eckley LtCol.Donald E.
Fisher TSgt. Jack McCrary Capt. Frank C.
Parker III Capt. Gordon J. Wenaas and
Sgt. JamesR.Williams. At 4:30 a.m., the
pilot made made contact and said that
the mission was progressing as
scheduled. No further contact was made.
The aircraft's last known position was
in extreme northwest North Vietnam, in
mountainous Lai Chau Province. The
eleven Americans aboard the aircraft
were declared Missing in Action |
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When the war ended, and 591 Americans
were released from Vietnamese prison
camps, the crew of the C130 was not
among them. Although the Vietnamese
pledged, as part of the Paris Peace
Accords, to release all prisoners and
make the fullest possible accounting of
the missing, they have done neither.
The Vietnamese deny any knowledge of the
crew of the C130. Alarmingly, evidence
continues to mount that Americans were
left as prisoners in Southeast Asia and
continue to be held today. Unlike "MIAs"
from other wars, most of the nearly 2500
men and women who remain missing are
unaccounted for. If even one was left
alive (and many authorities estimate
the numbers to be in the hundreds), we
have failed as a nation until and unless
we do everything possible to secure his
freedom and bring him home.
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