THE WALL OF FACES

On April 26, 1966, an RF-4C Phantom II (tail number 64-1045) from the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron carrying a crew of two took off on a night photographic reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. The crew was comprised of aircraft commander CAPT Warren L. Anderson and pilot 1LT James H. Tucker. As expected, radar contact with the Phantom was lost at 1:05 AM local time as it descended towards its target, approximately 15 miles north of Dong Hoi; however, contact could not be reestablished, and the aircraft failed to return from the mission. A ramp check was made with negative results and search teams were launched. No sign of the Phantom or a crash site could be located. Neither crew member was seen or heard from again. Anderson was promoted to Colonel and Tucker was promoted to Major during the time they were missing. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the MIA status of Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, is ACTIVE PURSUIT:

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KY9IEAW

The latest DPAA update (31 May 2018) lists 1,597 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. Col Anderson is one of those 1,597 MIAs.

http://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/Documents/VietnamAccounting/2018_stats/Stats_20180531.pdf

MIA Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, has his name chiseled into one of the "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/node/511408#.WywxePZFzIU

Information about MIA Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, from the POW Network website is at this link:

http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/a/a016.htm

Information about MIA Colonel Warren Leroy Anderson, USAF, from the Task Force Omega website is at this link:

http://taskforceomegainc.org/a016.html