The database page for Herbert Arthur Kirk
REMEMBEREDHerbert Kirk volunteered for a sensitive assignment called Project Heavy Green which involved a temporary relief from active duty in order to take a civilian job with Lockheed Aircraft. He would be running LIMA 85, a radar base in Laos, whose neutrality prohibited U.S. military presence. LIMA 85 was a highly classified TSQ-81/TACAN site on a Laotian mountaintop near the North Vietnamese border. On 11 March 1968, eleven US Air Force men were lost when the site was overrun by the North Vietnamese - and a twelth was lost when his A-1E was shot down during rescue operations.
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The photo and following article is taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987. The special supplement was issued in conjunction with the dedication of the Philadelphia Viet Nam Memorial.
From a native Philadelphian and Marine, |
The point-of-contact for this memorial is one who wore his MIA bracelet. ladecker@twcny.rr.com 14 Nov 2002 |
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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
Last updated 06/05/2003