Shannon, Patrick Lee
Air Force Technician sergeant

Patrick Lee Shannon, age 33, from Owasso, Oklahoma, Tulsa county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Monday, March 11, 1968
Death details: On October 31, 2005, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Technical Sergeant Patrick Lee Shannon, missing from the Vietnam War. Technical Sergeant Shannon joined the U.S. Air Force from Oklahoma and was a member of Detachment 1 of the 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron. On March 11, 1968, he was stationed at a tactical air navigation facility in Houaphan Province, Laos, when it was overrun by Vietnamese communist forces. TSgt Shannon was killed in the attack, and rescue teams could not recover his remains at the time. Enemy presence in the area prevented further search and rescue efforts for those lost in the attack. After the war, joint U.S., Vietnamese, and Laotian teams conducted multiple investigations to recover those missing from the attack on the facility. In 2003, the investigations led to the recovery of remains that U.S. forensic analysis later identified as those of TSgt Shannon.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency