Dunlap, William Charles Army Chief warrant officer 3

William Charles Dunlap, age 23, from Arizona, Pima county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, December 2, 1969
Death details: On February 22, 1990, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer William Charles Dunlap, missing from the Vietnam War. CWO Dunlap joined the U.S. Army from Arkansas and was a member of the 129th Aviation Company. On December 2, 1969, he was the copilot aboard a UH-1B Iroquois on a fire support mission for a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The aircraft crashed during the mission, and CWO Dunlap was killed in the incident. His remains could not be immediately recovered. In January 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of CWO Dunlap. Chief Warrant Officer Dunlap is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency