Collamore, Allan Philip Jr.
Navy Lieutenant commander

Allan Philip Jr. Collamore from Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: February 4, 1967
Death details: On February 4, 1967, he was the radar intercept officer aboard an F-4B Phantom II (bureau number 153007, call sign “Black Lion 102”) that took off from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) on a reconnaissance mission along the coast of North Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft crashed and burned for unknown reasons, killing LCDR Collamore. Heavy enemy presence prevented a ground search at the crash site, and his remains were not recovered at the time. In 2001, a joint investigative team traveled to the crash site where they recovered human remains from a burial site that correlated to this loss, and in 2003, U.S. investigators were able to identify LCDR Callamore from those remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency