Charles Kennedy LovelaceMajor8TH BOMB SQD, 34TH TAC GRP, 405TH FW, 13TH AF United States Air Force 22 January 1935 - 22 June 1965 New Bern, NC Panel 02E Line 016 |
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The database page for Charles Kennedy Lovelace
From his crewmate's cousin. |
Mission NotesThe B-57 Canberra bombers of the 8th and 13th Bomb Squadrons were deployed to South Vietnam beginning in late 1964 and undertook a variety of missions including both strike and "pathfinder" missions for other aircraft.On the night of 21/22 June 1965, Captains Charles K. Lovelace, pilot, and William E. Cordero, navigator, launched from Tan Son Nhut Air Base in B-57B tail number 53-3910 for a night flare mission (i.e., a pathfinder mission for other strike aircraft) over North Vietnam's southernmost province in the vicinity of the Lao/NVN border. The B-57B went down and both crewmen were lost. Later in the war their remains were recovered and laid to rest in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery, adjacent to the Memorial Amphitheater. |
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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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