Abrams, Lewis Herbert
Marines Colonel

Lewis Herbert Abrams from Montclair, New Jersey.

Date of death: November 25, 1967
Death details: On June 16, 1997, Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel Lewis Herbert Abrams, missing from the Vietnam War.

Colonel Abrams entered the U.S. Marine Corps from New Jersey and served with Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 242, Marine Air Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. On November 25, 1967, he piloted an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 15-2612, call sign “Packard”) on a night bombing mission against the Kien An Airfield, Haiphong, North Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft was shot down near Haiphong, killing Col Abrams, and his remains were not recovered at the time. Between 1990 and 1995, joint U.S/Vietnamese investigative teams traveled to Hai Phong Province and recovered human remains from a site associated with this loss; in 1997, U.S. analysts identified Col Abrams from these remains.