21 GUN SALUTE |
JAMES RANDALL WILLIAMS |
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| WILLIAMS, JAMES RANDALL Remains Identified 10/28/00. Click Here for more information |
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| Name: James Randall Williams Rank/Branch: E4/US Air Force Unit: 314th Tactical Airlift Wing Nha Trang Airbase, South Vietnam Date of Birth: 28 March 1945: Home City of Record:Charlotte NC Date of Loss: 29 December 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 220900N 1032200E (UK315501) Status (in 1973): Missing In Action Category: 4 Acft/Vehicle/Ground: C130E |
| On December 29, 1967, a C130E aircraft departed Nha Trang Airbase shortly after midnight on an operational mission over North Vietnam. The eleven man crew aboard the aircraft included Maj.Charles P. Claxton;Capt. Edwin N.Osborne Jr. and Capt. Gerald G. Van Buren (all listed as pilots); and crewmen SSgt. Edward J. Darcy SSgt. Gean P. Clapper SSgt. Wayne A. Eckley LtCol.Donald E. Fisher TSgt. Jack McCrary Capt. Frank C. Parker III Capt. Gordon J. Wenaas and Sgt. JamesR.Williams. At 4:30 a.m., the pilot made made contact and said that the mission was progressing as scheduled. No further contact was made. The aircraft's last known position was in extreme northwest North Vietnam, in mountainous Lai Chau Province. The eleven Americans aboard the aircraft were declared Missing in Action |
| When the war ended, and 591 Americans were released from Vietnamese prison camps, the crew of the C130 was not among them. Although the Vietnamese pledged, as part of the Paris Peace Accords, to release all prisoners and make the fullest possible accounting of the missing, they have done neither. The Vietnamese deny any knowledge of the crew of the C130. Alarmingly, evidence continues to mount that Americans were left as prisoners in Southeast Asia and continue to be held today. Unlike "MIAs" from other wars, most of the nearly 2500 men and women who remain missing are unaccounted for. If even one was left alive (and many authorities estimate the numbers to be in the hundreds), we have failed as a nation until and unless we do everything possible to secure his freedom and bring him home. |
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