Paul Stuart Gee, age 24, from Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, Vilas county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: January 16, 1968
Death details: On January 16, 1968, an EF-10B Skyknight (bureau number 125831, call sign “Pigment 662”) carrying two crew members was returning to Da Nang Air Base from a combat support mission over North Vietnam. When the aircraft was fifteen miles northwest of the airfield, it disappeared for unknown reasons. The last communication from the crew indicated they were over the coast of South Vietnam and that Da Nang Air Field was within sight. They said they were switching from radar control to tower control, but made no further contact. An extensive search for the missing Skyknight was conducted, but no sign of the crew or the aircraft was ever found.
First Lieutenant Paul Stuart Gee, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Wisconsin, served with the Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron 1, Marine Air Group 11, 1st Marine Air Wing. He was the airborne electronic countermeasures officer aboard the Skyknight when it disappeared, and his remains were not recovered. After the incident, the Marine Corps promoted 1stLt Gee to the rank of Captain (Capt). Today, Captain Gee is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW?MIA Accounting Agency
