THE WALL OF FACES

Richard Champ Clark was my square dance partner in the third, fourth, and fifth grades at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA. I did not graduate with that class at Stadium because I moved to California. I was very sad when I learned that he was missing in Vietnam, but am pleased that he has been found. I remember him well.

Georgia Hill

Information about the loss of an F-4B Phantom from VA-151 launched from the USS Coral Sea on which former MIA Lt(jg) Richard Champ Clark, USN, was the Radar Intercept officer (RIO), in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 24 October 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1419

While in MIA status, the U.S. Navy promoted Lt(jg) Clark to Lieutenant along with his Navy contemporaries.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, former MIA Lieutenant Richard Champ Clark, USN, was accounted for on 2 February 2015:

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000oosC8EAI

As of the date of this entry, the Department of Defense has accounted for 1,054 Americans formerly missing in Southeast Asia and contiguous waters during the Vietnam War. LT Richard Clark is one of those 1,054 Americans accounted for:

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_ALL_20210611.pdf

As of 11 June 2021, the DPAA lists 1,584 Americans still MIA:

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20210611.pdf

Former MIA Lieutenant Richard Champ Clark, USN, remembered on what would've been his 80th birthday - 16 June 2021.

Lieutenant Richard Champ Clark, Served with Fighter Squadron 151 (VF-151), Carrier Air Wing 15 (CVW-15), USS Coral Sea, Task Force 77 (TF-77), 7th Fleet.