Trimble, Larry Allen
Air Force Captain
Larry Allen Trimble, age 25, from Farmington, Washington, Whitman county.
Parents: Foy and Virginia
Spouse: Janet L. (Butcher)
Children: Amy
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Oakesdale High (1965), Washington State University
Date of death: Saturday, April 15, 1972
Death details: On October 3, 1989, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Larry Allen Trimble, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Trimble joined the U.S. Air Force from Washington and was a member of the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron. On April 15, 1972, he was the aircraft commander aboard an F-4E Phantom II (serial number 66-0324) on an armed reconnaissance mission along Route 101 in Vietnam. Captain Trimble’s aircraft was downed by a surface-to-air missile during the mission, and he was killed in the crash. Search efforts failed to locate his remains at the time. In April 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that U.S. analysts subsequently identified as those of Capt Trimble.
Cemetery: Garfield, Washington
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency, Moscow Pullman Daily News (1989), Spokane Daily Chronicle (1973)