Stickney, Phillip Joseph
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Phillip Joseph Stickney from Manchester, New Hampshire, Hillsborough county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: May 31, 1966
Death details: On January 8, 2004, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Joseph Stickney, missing from the Vietnam War.

Senior Master Sergeant Stickney, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New Hampshire, served with the 61st Troop Carrier Squadron. On May 31, 1966, SMSgt Stickney served as a loadmaster aboard a C-130 Hercules (tail number 64-0511) that departed Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, on a classified bombing mission using special weapons against the Thanh Hoa Bridge in North Vietnam. During the bombing run, the Hercules was shot down and SMSgt Stickney was killed. Hostile presence in the area prevented immediate recovery efforts. In 1998, the Vietnamese government repatriated remains which were later identified as those of SMSgt Stickney.
Cemetery: Memorialized in Nashville National

Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency