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….

Dear Cap Dennis Wilkson, Thank you for your service as a Weapons Systems Officer. Glad you were identified in 1978. Welcome Home. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

On May10, 1972, CAPT Jeffrey L. Harris and CAPT Dennis E. Wilkinson were crewmembers aboard an F-4E from the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Udorn RTAFB in a flight of four on a daytime escort mission over Northern Vietnam. Their aircraft was shot down by a Vietnamese MiG 19 aircraft and crashed in a low-rolling hill area near Lang Quai hamlet, Tan Long village, Yen Son District, Tuyen Quang Province, NVN. Other members of the flight saw no parachutes and heard no electronic beacon signals. Due to intense enemy activity and the location of the crash, search and rescue efforts were not initiated. On August 26, 1978, the Vietnamese repatriated CAPT Wilkinson’s remains. During the 39th Joint MIA Field Activity Conducted in Six Vietnamese Provinces in early 1996, a Joint Team excavated a crash site near Tan Long village, recovering wreckage consistent with an F-4 aircraft, aircrew life support equipment, personal equipment, and human remains. On September 17, 1996, the Armed Forces Identification Review Board identified the remains recovered from the Tan Long village crash site as those of CAPT Harris. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]

Captain Dennis Edward Wilkinson, Served with the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 432nd Tactical Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force.

Dear Captain Dennis Edward Wilkinson, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, Sir

Curt Carter