Philip Spratt Jr. Clark from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, Spokane county.
Spouse: Sheryl Ann Taylor (1946 – 1971)
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, December 24, 1972
Death details: On February 17, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander Philip Spratt Clark Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Commander Clark joined the U.S. Navy from Washington and was a member of Attack Squadron 113, embarked aboard the USS Ranger. On December 24, 1972, he piloted an A-7 Corsair on a mine laying mission over the Renaud Channel off the North Vietnamese coast. LCDR Clark’s Corsair went down during the mission, and he died in the incident. Search and rescue attempts for LCDR Clark were unsuccessful. In February 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of LCDR Clark.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency