Newman, Larry Jerome
Air Force Technician sergeant
Larry Jerome Newman from North Platte, Nebraska, Lincoln county.
Service era: Veitnam
Date of death: Sunday, June 18, 1972
Death details: On October 12, 1994, the Joint Task Force–Full Accounting (JFA-FA) identified the remains of Technical Sergeant Larry Jerome Newman, missing from the Vietnam War.
Technical Sergeant Newman entered the U.S. Air Force from Nebraska and was a member of the 16th Special Operations Squadron. On June 18, 1972, he was a gunner aboard an AC-130A gunship (tail number 55-0043, call sign “Spectre 11”) that took off from Ubon Airfield, Thailand, on an armed reconnaissance mission over A Shau Valley, South Vietnam. The aircraft was shot down by an enemy surface-to-air missile near the border of Laos and Vietnam. Technical Sergeant Newman was killed in the crash and his remains could not be recovered at the time. In October 1993, investigators visited the crash site and recovered personal artifacts and human remains. Technical Sergeant Newman was identified among the remains recovered.
Source: National Archives, UPI, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
