Fisher, Donald Garth
Air Force Colonel

Donald Garth Fisher, age 19, from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Luzerne county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: April 22, 1970
Death details: On September 1, 1995, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel Donald Garth Fisher, missing from the Vietnam War.
Colonel Fisher joined the U.S. Air Force from Pennsylvania and was a member of the 16th Special Operations Squadron. On April 22, 1970, he was a crew member aboard an AC-130 gunship (serial number 54-1625) on an armed reconnaissance mission over enemy targets in Saravane Province, Laos. The AC-130 was downed by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, and Col Fisher was killed in the crash. Search and rescue efforts were unable to locate Col Fisher’s body immediately following the incident. In November 1993, a joint U.S. and Laotian investigative team recovered remains from a crash site associated with this AC-130. In 1995, forensic analysis identified some of the recovered remains as those of Col Fisher.

Source: National Archives., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency