Marshall, Richard Carlton
Air Force Captain

Richard Carlton Marshall from Chicago, Illinois, Cook county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, September 5, 1965
Death details:  On September 5, 1965, an A-1G Skyraider (tail number 132562) carrying two crew members took off from Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam, for a one-hour training flight over the Bien Hoa area. During the flight, the aircraft performed a strafing pass but failed to recover out of it and crashed. Witnesses reported that the aircraft exploded on impact, and no parachutes emerged from the plane before it went down. The next day, investigation teams traveled by helicopter to the crash site but were unable to land due to the enemy presence in the area. Three weeks following the crash, it was reported that Viet Cong visited the crash site, removed the remains of the two occupants, and buried them nearby at an unknown location. Both crew members remain unaccounted-for.

Captain Richard Carlton Marshall, who joined the U.S. Air Force from Illinois, was a member of Detachment 10 of the 1131st Special Activities Squadron. He was the pilot of the Skyraider when it crashed on September 5, 1965, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains have not been recovered. Today, Captain Marshall is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency