THE WALL OF FACES

Colonel David Hartzler Zook Jr., Served with the 5th Air Commando Squadron, 14th Air Commando Wing, 7th Air Force.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the remains of former MIA Colonel David Hartzer Zook, Jr., USAF, were accounted for on 20 August 2008:

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000paAS3EAM

The latest DPAA update (15 January 2021) lists 1,053 Americans accounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. Col. Zook is one of those 1,053 Americans (513 from the U.S. Air Force).

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_ALL_20210115.pdf

https://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_AIR%20FORCE_20210115.pdf

The latest DPAA update (15 January 2021) lists 1,585 Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20210115.pdf

Information about the mid-air collision and crash of a U-10B Courier prop aircraft piloted by former MIA Major David Hartzer Zook, Jr., USAF, with a C-7A Caribou in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over South Vietnam) on 4 October 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1379

While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted David Zook to the rank of Colonel along with his Air Force year-group contemporaries. N.B. that some websites show Zook's rank at the time of the crash as Captain. Other websites indicate he was a Major.

On the remembrance of your 91st birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH

Information about former MIA Colonel David Hartzer Zook, Jr., USAF, from the POW Network website is at this link:

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/z/z001.htm