Jacob Drummond LOGAN

Birth 26OCT40 Rank LTJG Date of Death 02DEC65 P. of birth   Service Navy (Reserve) Place N. Vietnam town of rec. Seattle Unit FITRON 114, USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63) Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Fixed Wing - Crew; Air Loss, Crash - Land Hometown   service # 670338 Panel 03EAST - 120 Married Married Medals   MIA - BNR Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR   Washington State University, Pullman WA, 1962

(MIA records extracted from P.O.W. Network) Jacob Drummond Logan was born 26 Oct 1940. He was a 3 year veteran in the US Navy. For more details visit P.O.W. Network

    Clancy George DRAKE

Birth 02DEC31 Rank CAPT Date of Death 09DEC65 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tin, S. Vietnam town of rec. Kirkland Unit H&S Co, 3/3rd MAR, 3rd MAR Div Death Code Hostile Died; Ground Casualty; Gun Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 72805 Panel 04EAST - 04 married Married Medals   MIA -   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

Clancy Drake and His Sidekicks Furnished Road Blocks in Korea
      Clancy Drake spoke of the war in Korea like he would have rehashed a Lake Washington High football game a year ago.
      He served with a rifle platoon G for George company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. This would read better if you began with the regiment and worked down to the smallest unit. Clancy's team, a bunch of kids about his own age, which is 19, and pictured it living together in a foxhole so close to the front lines you could hear the China Red bugle-blowers, far to the rear of their front.
      Clancy was describing some of the action he'd been through during the past seven months. As a member of a rifle team, his unit often was called upon to provide road blocks for the U.N. forces. Furnishing a road block is like staying aboard a sinking ship until all hands have been taken off. It's not a juicy assignment.
      In one action on November 17 at Yeidam -- farthest north the U.N. troops had penetrated -- a rocked exploded three feet away from Clancy and the concussion was terrific. In addition to being wounded Clancy was shaken up badly and his stomach still isn't the same. He was to be careful what he eats although he looks hale and hearty and as sound as a dollar.
      "Only kids 18 or 19 could go through things like that and still see a little humor in it," his mother, Mrs. G. R. Drake, said. "His brother Bob, who is 25, worries about Clancy all the time," she said.
      Both of the boys have received the Purple Heart and Bob was near at hand when Clancy was hurt although they are of different organizations.
      Most of the time since that fatal day at Yeidam, Clancy has been in the hospital. When he reports back to San Diego on April 7 the going will be a little easier. he has been assigned to eight weeks of school.
      Clancy was called up as a reserve last August 9. "Up until then about all he knew about soldiering was to halt," his mother said. In three weeks he was headed overseas.
      The ride back was a lot better, Clancy was aboard the Gen. J. C. Breckenridge, a troop transport carrying many wounded which steamed into San Francisco Bay march 5 with lots of fanfare. later there was a wonderful parade up market Street and the folks in "Frisco" gave the troops a rousing welcome.
      "It was quite a trill, all right," Clancy laughed.
      Clancy's dad is a mechanic at Hansen Motors. He and Mrs. Drake are remodeling a home on the Blacktop. Much of their spare time is spent keeping a watchful eye on what's doing in Korea, a place that seems very remote to most people, but not to a couple of parents who have had two boys fighting there., (East Side Journal, Kirkland WA, 22 Mar 1951)

Capt. Clancy Drake
      Capt. Clancy G. Drake, 34, of the Marine Corps was killed in action 9 Dec (1965) near Clu Lui, Viet Nam.
      He is believed to be the first war fatality from Kirkland. He was a veteran of the Korean War and had been a marine for 17 years. He was decorated with the Purple Heart in the Korean War, which he entered as an enlisted man. He was wounded in combat in Korea.
      His wife, Eleanor, and two children, Thomas, 7, and Ann, 21 months, live at 10330 N.W. 137th Pl., Juanita. They moved there from Kirkland a month ago. Thomas attends Juanita Elementary School.
      His parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Drake, live at 612 Eighth Ave. A brother, Robert C. Drake of Kirkland, also survives.
      Mrs. Drake had been married to Captain Drake for 12 years. She said she heard from the Marine Corps Friday afternoon that her husband had been killed in action in Viet Nam.
      She said she knew he was in an area of heavy fighting. He was a battalion intelligence officer. She said he went to Viet Nam in August.
      Captain Drake was born and grew up in Kirkland. While at Kirkland High School, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves and went on active duty in the Korean War.
      After leaving the service, he attended Western Washington College of Education and was graduated from the University of Washington with honors. From the university, he went to Marine Corps officers' school and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1957. He had been a captain for three years.
      He observed his 34th birthday on 2 Dec (1965) in Viet Nam.
      Arrangements are being made to have her husband's body returned here, Mrs. Drake said. (East Side Journal, Kirkland WA, 16 Dec 1965)

    Daniel John GUILMET

Birth 21APR46 Rank PFC Date of Death 18DEC65 P. of birth Seattle Service Army Place S. Vietnam town of rec. Seattle Unit 173rd Abn Bde, C Co, 2nd Bn, 503rd Inf Death Code Hostile, Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown Seattle service # 19818765 Enlisted 29Sep64 Married Married Medals   Panel 04EAST - 23 Tour Date 5May65 Comment 173rdAirborne 173rd Abn Bde Cemetery Evergreen-Washelli, Seattle WA   Roosevelt High School, Seattle WA, 1963

Daniel J. Guilmet, 19 Funeral services for Army Pfc. Daniel J. Guilmet, 18, (sic) of 8038 17th Ave. N. E., will be at 11 o'clock tomorrow in the Bonney-Watson Broadway chapel. Burial will be in Washelli. Private Guilmet, a para-trooper, was killed 18 Dec 1965 in Viet-Nam. He will be recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award for bravery in the United States. Born in Seattle, Mr. Guilmet lived here all his life. He attended Roosevelt High School. He was sent to Okinawa with the Army in 1964 and had been in Viet-Nam since March. Surviving are his wife, Denese Rene; a daughter, Tina Patricia Guilmet; his mother, Mrs. Mildred Guilmet; his father, John R. Guilmet; two brothers, Ronald D. and John Guilmet and a sister, Peggy Jean Guilmet, all of Seattle. (Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA - Obituary Records)

    Guy David JOHNSON

Birth 26NOV29 Rank CAPT Date of Death 20DEC65 P. of birth   Service Navy Place N. Vietnam town of rec. Seattle Unit RVAH 13, KITTY HAWK (CVA 63) Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Fixed Wing - Pilot; Air Loss, Crash - Land Hometown   service # 533241158 Panel 04EAST - 30 Married Married Medals   MIA - 20DEC65 Comment   MIA Com. ret. 18MAR77 id. 31MAR77 Cemetery

Flag flies over USS Kitty Hawk in father’s honor
Banner from pilot’s casket is raised over carrier 41 years after he was shot down over North Vietnam
— Allison Batdorff
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Did Guy “Jeff” Johnson need insurance for the package he was mailing to the USS Kitty Hawk? “No,” he told the postal worker. The package’s contents were “priceless” — it contained the American flag that had covered his father’s casket.
      This flag had flown over the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Security Administration — where Jeff Johnson is a special agent with the Associate Directorate of Security and Counterintelligence — and was headed now across the ocean to Yokosuka, Japan, and the Navy’s oldest active-duty aircraft carrier.
      It was raised above the Kitty Hawk last Wednesday, 41 years to the day (and nearly the time) that Jeff Johnson’s father — Capt. Guy David Johnson — and his navigator, Lt. Cmdr. Lee Edward Nordahl, catapulted off the carrier’s flight deck and never returned.
      This was the family’s way of coming “full circle,” Jeff Johnson said via e-mail.
      “I have now lived longer than my father,” said Jeff Johnson, who has three children of his own, ages 20, 17 and 13. “I have always wondered how it felt as a parent, when my parents must have known that they were going to part this earth, how and who will care for the children.”
      Jeff Johnson’s father was shot down over North Vietnam on Dec. 20, 1965, five days before Christmas and nine days before Jeff’s fifth birthday. The pair left the carrier on a short bomb-damage assessment flight over a “heavily defended” area of North Vietnam, but never made radio contact. Subsequent searches turned up nothing.
      Guy Johnson and Nordahl were declared “missing in action” until 1977, when the Vietnamese government confirmed they shot down the RA-5C and that both crewmembers were killed. Guy Johnson’s remains were returned to the family that year; Nordahl’s body is still missing.
      Jeff Johnson’s mother, Anne, was buried with a flag, too, as she was a naval reserve nurse. She died of stomach cancer in 1966, a year after her husband went missing. They were laid to rest together in 1977 under a shared headstone in Arlington National Cemetery. Jeff Johnson and his younger sister, Jenny, were raised by Anne’s brother’s family.
      “I remember the precision of the burial ceremony,” Jeff Johnson recalled. “Besides the sadness of saying goodbye to a father and mother that I never really knew, [I felt] the pride in how dignified all the burial members performed their duties. I was presented my father’s flag … and my sister has my mother’s flag.”
      That it could be flown over the Kitty Hawk on the anniversary of his father’s death is timely, as the aircraft carrier is 45 years old and is due to leave Yokosuka in 2008 for decommissioning.
      “The Johnson family and the Kitty Hawk are tied together,” said Kitty Hawk spokesman Chief Petty Officer Jason Chudy after the flag-raising ceremony. “We wanted to make this as honorable as we could, and hopefully give the family some closure.”
      Jeff Johnson said that he hopes for the chance to visit the Kitty Hawk and thank the crew personally for their efforts.
      The flag will stay in the family — it has since passed to Johnson’s son David, who received it when he became an Eagle Scout. According to Jeff Johnson, David’s eyes widened during the ceremony when his grandfather’s commendations and citations were enumerated.
      “You could see in his eyes that this was important and that he was about to receive an heirloom that meant a lot to the family,” Jeff Johnson said. “I would be honored if he passes that flag on down to his son with the same feeling. I think that as David grows older, he will understand his own accomplishments with pride and also understand the importance of his past — and what his grandfather did and gave up for his family and country.” (Stars and Stripes, Thursday, 5 Mar 2009

TIMELINE
Dec. 20, 1965
7:30 a.m. — Lt. Cmdr. Guy David Johnson and Lt. j.g. Lee Edward Nordahl catapult off USS Kitty Hawk in the RA-5C vigilante reconnaissance aircraft with the call sign “Flint River 604.”
7:59 a.m. — They cross into North Vietnam, north of Haipong to survey damage to a bi-thermal power plant and highway bridge (no radio calls).
8:04 a.m. — A radio call goes unanswered.
8:07 a.m. — The plane does not show up for rendezvous with escort aircraft.
8:10 a.m. — Another unanswered radio call
8:15 a.m. — Search and rescue begins, helicopter withdraws before complete search after taking automatic weapons fire. Later that day, pilots report hearing a survival radio beeper but are unable to make contact with either crewmember.
Dec. 21, 1965
4 p.m. — Search effort halted. Johnson and Nordahl placed on “missing in action” status. The pair continued to be promoted in this status, Johnson to captain and Nordahl to lieutenant commander.
Sept. 6, 1977
Vietnamese government confirms it shot down Flint River 604 and both crew members had been killed.
March 19, 1977
North Vietnamese officials turn over Johnson’s remains to U.S. military in Hanoi. They are later confirmed to be those of Johnson.
Dec. 20, 2006
8:07 a.m. USS Kitty Hawk flag detail raises a flag that had covered Johnson’s casket above the aircraft carrier at the conclusion of morning colors. After a reading and moment of silence, the flag is lowered and folded for return to family.(Stars and Stripes, Thursday, 5 Mar 2009

(MIA records extracted from P.O.W. Network)Guy David Johnson was born 26 Nov 1929. His town of record was Seattle WA. LCdr. Guy D. Johnson was a pilot of a Vigilante (RA5C version) assigned to a reconnaissance mission near Hon Gay city in Quang Ninh Province, North Vietnam on 20 Dec 1965. During the mission the aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. They were listed Missing in Action. In 1977 the Vietnamese returned the remains of Guy D. Johnson to American control. He was promoted to Captain during the time he was listed MIA.
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    William Floyd "Charlie" BROWN

Birth 30AUG46 Rank PFC Date of Death 27DEC65 P. of birth Oregon Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam town of rec. Seattle Unit B CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MAR DIV Death Code Hostile Died; Ground Casualty; Gun Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2128924 Panel 04EAST - 41 married Single Link Virtual Wall Medals   Enlisted 10SEP64 Comment   Cemetery Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA

PFC. William F. Brown Funeral Military funeral services for Marine Pfc. William Floyd Brown, 19, who was killed in action 27 Dec (1965), Viet-Nam will be at 2 o'clock Monday in the University Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Washelli under direction of Beck's Funeral Home. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Blanche M. Brown, 329 N. W. 177th St., and his father, William Francis Brown, Sacramento.(Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA - Obituary Records)

BROWN, Pvt, 1st class William F., U.S. Marine Corps, of 329 N. W. 177th. Son of Mrs. Blanche Brown and William Brown. Brother of Mrs. Franklin Sauter, Mrs. Louis Nelson, Laura Louise Brown and Clyde O'Neal. Remains will lie in state Thursday through Sunday at Beck's Funeral Home, Edmonds. Funeral Services 2 p.m. Monday, University Lutheran Church. Internment, Veterans Section, Washelli Cemetery.(Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA - Obituary Records)

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Jack Dale McCLURE

Birth 30JAN30 Rank CAPT Date of Death 31DEC65 P. of birth Oklahoma Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Modesto CA Unit MACV, Adv Team 70 Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 4074836 Local Tacoma married Married Panel 04EAST - 46 Medals   Tour Date 9JUL65 Comment   Cemetery Fort Lewis Cemetery, Fort Lewis WA