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ANDERSON, WARREN LEROY
Name: Warren Leroy Anderson
Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force
Unit: 377th Combat Support Group, Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam
Date of Birth: 27 December 1932
Home City of Record: Camden MI
Date of Loss: 26 April 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 174000N 1062900E (XE591538)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF4C
Other Personnel In Incident: James H. Tucker (missing)
REMARKS: ALL CONTACT LOST
SYNOPSIS: 1Lt. James H. Tucker was the pilot of an RF4C Phantom jet flying on
an unarmed night reconnaissance flight over a heavily defended North Vietnamese
anti-aircraft complex when all contact with their aircraft was lost. His
backseater on the mission was Capt. Warren L. Anderson. It was Anderson's third
mission in Vietnam.
The mission was to photograph an anti-aircraft complex 15 miles north of Dong
Hoi, North Vietnam. The aircraft was being monitored by forward radar units in
South Vietnam. As the aircraft crossed a mountain range to descended on the
target, radio and radar contact was lost, and could not be reestablished. An
electronic search was begun immediately and a visual search as soon as daylight
permitted. Nothing was ever found of the aircraft or its crew.
In 1973, 591 Americans were released from Vietnamese prisons; Anderson and
Tucker were not among them. They remained Missing In Action.
Following the war, as refugees began to flood the world from Vietnam, thousands
of reports of Americans still held captive began to accumulate. By 1988, over
6000 reports have been received by the U.S. Government. A Pentagon panel,
after a 5 month review of classified records concluded in 1986 that at least
100 Americans were still alive, held captive in Southeast Asia.
Anderson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for obtaining vital photos
on an unarmed craft over the area where he later disappeared. Because there
has never been any word of James Tucker or Warren Anderson, their families
wonder if they are alive or dead. And, if alive, how much longer much they
wait for their country to bring them home?
Prepared by Homecoming II Project 01 December 1989