THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am heartened you returned home after the passage of so many years though I wish it had been under very different circumstances. May you rest in eternal peace.

Dear Major Charles Kuhlmann, Thank you for your service as a Tactical Aircraft Pilot.
Your 90th birthday just passed, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.

Major Charles Frederick Kuhlmann, Served with the 602nd Special Operations Squadron, 56th Special Operations Wing, 7th Air Force.

Rest in peace Major. I was at Nakhon Phanom NKP Apr 67-68. working in TUOC Tactical Units Operation Center. I'm also from New Britain Ct.

MAJ Charles F. Kuhlmann was an U.S. Air Force pilot attached to the 602nd Special Operations Squadron stationed at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP) in Thailand. On September 22, 1968, he was conducting an armed reconnaissance mission in the northeast corner of Laos in a USAF A-1H Skyraider. He and his wingman were flying over a dirt road designated as Route 6 which was used by the enemy to transport weapons and supplies. Kuhlmann radioed his wingman that he saw something on the road. He rolled his fully fueled and armed Skyraider past 90 degrees of bank into a steep dive. The wingman observed the A-1 diving with its nose pointed straight down, then crash into trees when it was unable to recover. MAJ Kuhlmann was initially listed as Missing in Action, later changed to Killed in Action. In February 1995, remains thought to be his were repatriated to the U.S. Later that year, they were positively identified as Kuhlmann’s. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and the book Cheating Death by George J. Marrett]