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Mciver, Alexander
Air Force Captain

Alexander Mciver, age 34, from Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles 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 Alexander McIver, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain McIver joined the U.S. Air Force from California 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 McIver died in the incident. Once fighting in the area had subsided, search and rescue teams recovered the remains of most of the C-130E’s crew; however, Capt McIver’s remains could not be individually identified until 1974.
Cemetery: Arlington National

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com

Crone, Donald Everett
Army Specialist 4

Donald Everett Crone from Whittier, California, Los Angeles county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Monday, February 15, 1971
Death details: On December 11, 2000, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Specialist 4 Donald Everett Crone, missing from the Vietnam War.

Specialist 4 Crone entered the U.S. Army from California and served with the 159th Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. On February 15, 1971, he was the crew chief aboard a CH-47C Chinook (tail number 18506, call sign “Regard 25”) on a combat support/resupply mission over Laos. During the flight, “Regard 25” caught fire, exploded in mid-air, and crashed near the Pon River in Savannakhet Province, Laos. Specialist 4 Crone was killed in the crash and his remains could not be recovered at the time. After the war, a series of joint U.S.-Laotian investigative teams located the crash site and recovered human remains, some of which were forensically identified as those of SP4 Crone.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 

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