THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….

Never forget.

HOOAH

Dear Major William Nellans, Thank you for your service as a Pilot. Your 85th birthday just passed, happy birthday. Your are still MIA. Please come come. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It’s a New Year, but not necessarily better. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness, especially now. Be at peace.

Information about the loss of an RF-4C Phantom jet aircraft from the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron piloted by MIA Major William Lee Nellans, USAF, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 16 September 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1353

MIA Major William Lee Nellans, USAF, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial (Vietnam War Section - Air Force Court "A") in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") 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/decedent-search/nellans%3Dwilliam