Unger, Don Lee
Air Force Captain
Don Lee Unger, age 26, from Lake Worth, Florida, Palm Beach county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, May 3, 1972
Death details: On June 12, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory-Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Don Lee Unger, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Unger joined the U.S. Air Force from Florida and was a member of the 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing. On May 3, 1972, he was a crew member aboard a C-130E Hercules that took off on a resupply mission near An Loc, Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down during the mission, and Capt Unger was killed in the crash. Once fighting had stopped in the area, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of the crew; however, Capt Unger’s remains could not be individually identified until 1974.
Cemetery: Lake Worth Memory Grades, Florida
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com