Speicher, Michael Scott
Navy Captain

Michael Scott Speicher, age 33, from Kansas City, Missouri. Their last known residence was in Jacksonville, Florida.

Spouse: Joanne Speicher
Children: Two children

Service era: Operation Desert Storm
Schools: Florida State University (1980)

Date of death: Thursday, January 17, 1991
Death details: Shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet over west-central Iraq. Acting on information from an Iraqi citizen in July 2009, Marines went to the crash site and were led to a burial site. He was the only American missing in action from that war. Reports over years led some to believe he was alive.
Cemetery: Jacsonville Memory Gardens

Source: Department of Defense, New York Times, Fox News, Associated Press

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