HONORED ON PANEL 6W, LINE 56 OF THE WALL
WILLIAM W BANCROFT JR
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WILLIAM W BANCROFT JR
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LEFT FOR WILLIAM W BANCROFT JR
POSTED ON 9.27.2017
POSTED BY: Tom Clark and Brenna McCormack, Lake Central High School, St. John, Indiana
Indiana Hero
POSTED ON 11.7.2016
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik
Remembered
DEAR LIEUTENANT BANCROFT,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A NAVIGATOR. YOU ARE STILL MIA. PLEASE COME HOME.
ELECTION DAY IS NEAR AND VETERANS' DAY IS APPROACHING - SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER AND HONOR ALL OF YOU. MAY THE SAINTS AND ANGELS GUIDE YOU.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A NAVIGATOR. YOU ARE STILL MIA. PLEASE COME HOME.
ELECTION DAY IS NEAR AND VETERANS' DAY IS APPROACHING - SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER AND HONOR ALL OF YOU. MAY THE SAINTS AND ANGELS GUIDE YOU.
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POSTED ON 7.22.2015
POSTED BY: Sherry Sparks Cole
Great friend
I dated Bill while in high school and he always wanted to go into the service. I told him it worried me and his joking answer was always "Only the good die young." This proved very true because he was far too young when he died.
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POSTED ON 11.13.2014
POSTED BY: Marilyn Templeton
Remembering You Today
1st Lieutenant Bancroft, we will never forget you.
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POSTED ON 9.13.2014
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Final Mission of 1LT William W. Bancroft Jr.
On November 13, 1970, MAJ David I. Wright, pilot, and 1LT William W. Bancroft Jr., navigator, departed their base at Udorn, Thailand on an aerial reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. During the mission, while just east of Tan Ap in Ha Tinh Province, their RF-4C Phantom jet was seen to explode and crash while making a low level pass over the objective target. It was not known at that time whether Wright and Bancroft survived. On 18 November 1970, the U.S. intelligence community received information which indicated that Wright and Bancroft were dead, and they were listed as Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered. [Narrative taken from pownetwork.org; image from wikipedia.org]
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