Espenshied, John Lee
Air Force Colonel
John Lee Espenshied, age 44, from Delaware, Ohio, Delaware county. Their last known residence was in Delaware.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: October 21, 1969
Death details: Hostile,died missing, South Vietnam. On October 21, 1969, he was the observer aboard an O-2A Skymaster (serial number 68-10975) on a Forward Air Control mission over To Hop Valley, Vietnam. The Skymaster went down at some point during the mission, and Col Espenshied died in the incident. Search and rescue efforts launched when the aircraft failed to return were unsuccessful in locating a crash site or its crew. In January 1989, the Vietnamese government returned a set of remains to U.S. custody that they had wrongly associated with another individual. Later that year, U.S. analysts identified the remains as those of Col Espenshied.
Cemetery: Arlington Nataional
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency