Neville, William
Air Force Technician sergeant

William Neville from El Cajon, California, San Diego county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, June 18, 1965
Death details: 

On June 18, 1965, two B-52F Stratofortresses (tail numbers 57-179 and 57-047) carrying six crew members each collided in mid-air over the South China Sea while en route to Vietnam. Both aircraft were destroyed in the collision. Search and rescue efforts recovered four survivors and the remains of one additional crew member. The remaining seven crew members could not be found.

Technical Sergeant William Edward Neville, who entered the U.S. Air Force from California, served with the 441st Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) and was a gunner aboard one of these B-52s. He was lost with his aircraft and remains unaccounted for. Today, Technical Sergeant Neville is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency