THE WALL OF FACES

Location of Interment: American Fork Cemetery - American Fork, Utah.
PLot: M_66_8

Your Marine Comrades from OCS and TBS at Quantioc, VA in 1968-69 Remember and honor you. Semper Fi

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Per announcement from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in a Press Release on 9 August 2023, the remains of Captain Ralph Jim Chipman, USMC, were accounted for on 2 August 2023.
Announcement: https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3487948/pilot-accounted-for-from-vietnam-chipman-r/

Capt. Chipman's DPAA Profile: https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000BTZDEA4

Former MIA Captain Ralph Jim Chipman, USMC, has his name chiseled into one of the "Courts of the Missing" (Vietnam War Court "A") at the Honolulu Memorial in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific 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/chipman%3Dralph

Information about the crash of an A-6A Intruder fighter jet piloted by former MIA Captain Ralph Jim Chipman, USMC, from VMA (AW)-533 launched from RTAB Nam Phong during a night-time reconnaissance mission in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 28 December 1972 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3089