Knutson, Richard Arthur
Army Chief warrant officer

Richard Arthur Knutson, age 22, from Hallock, Minnesota, Kittson county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: January 8, 1973
Death details: On October 27, 1995, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Richard Arthur Knutson, missing from the Vietnam War.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Knutson joined the U.S. Army from Minnesota and was a member of the 62nd Aviation Company. On January 8, 1973, he was the pilot of a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 69-15619) on a support mission over Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. The Iroquois was shot down during the mission, and CWO3 Knutson was killed in the incident. Enemy presence in the area prevented ground searches for him or the crash site. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigative team recovered remains from a site associated with this loss. In 1995, forensic analysis identified the remains as those of CWO3 Knutson.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency