THE WALL OF FACES

Information about the loss of two F-4C Phantom jet aircraft from the 389th Tactical Fighter Squadron, one of which was piloted by MIA Lt. Col. Kelly Francis Cook, U.S. Air Force, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 10 November 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1451

While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted Lt. Col. Cook to Colonel along with his USAF contemporaries. Lt. Col. Cook's previous assignment was as an instructor at the USAFA. His F-4 WSO/"back seater" on this mission, 1st Lt James Crew (later Maj.), was USAFA 1965. Of the crewmen in the other F-4, Maj. James Morgan & 1st Lt Charles Huneycutt, Maj. Morgan is still MIA. Huneycutt's remains returned by the communists in 1991.

Information about MIA Colonel Kelly Francis Cook, U.S. Air Force, from the POW Network website is at this link/URL:

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/c/c054.htm

Information about MIA Col. Kelly Francis Cook, USAF from the Task Force Omega website is at this link/URL:

http://www.taskforceomegainc.org/c054.htm

Per Remembrance/article on VVMF website, Kelly Cook was a semester short of graduation from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, in 1942 when he dropped out to join the U.S. Army Air Force Aviation Cadet program.

On the remembrance of your 99th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

POW-MIA...Never Forget

HOOAH

Kelly was a childhood friend of my father, Carl T. Oder. My sisters and I grew up often hearing his name. My father thought he was brilliant. He encouraged my dad to play basketball. My dad helped him study Latin and he eventually took Latin himself. My dad was heartbroken when Kelly went MIA. Occasionally we would run into Kelly’s sister here in Lexington, KY. I can’t remember her name, but she never married. The last time we saw Miss Cook was at my father’s visitation in 1997. We really just wanted the Cook family to know what a wonderful influence Kelly was to our dad, a shy farm boy he took under his wing. From the Oder sisters, Pat Sloan, Cecelia Adams, and Mary Jo Smith