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DENTON, MANUEL REYES
Name: Manuel Reyes Denton
Rank/Branch: E4/US Navy
Unit: First Marine Air Wing, Fleet Marine Force Pacific
Date of Birth: 18 June 1941 (Sam Antonio TX)
Home City of Record: Kerrville TX
Date of Loss: 08 October 1963
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 160207N 1073440E (YC758744)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH34D
Other Personnel In Incident: Luther E. Ritchey (missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: ACFT CRASH AFT AIR COLLISION - J
SYNOPSIS: In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson took
the office of the President of the United States. Few Americans had more than a
passing knowledge of Vietnam, yet in February, a U.S. Senate panel reported that
annual American aid to South Vietnam totaled $400 million. By the end of the
year 16,300 Americans were on station there "on dangerous assignment." During
this year, the war in Vietnam captured U.S. media attention when Buddhists
staged demonstrations, revolts and self-immolations during that summer.
Lance Corporal Luther E. Ritchey, Jr. was attached to HMM 361, Marine
Air Group 16. Hospital Corpsman Third Class Manuel Reyes Denton was a crewman
assigned to the First Marine Air Wing, Fleet Marine Force Pacific. On October 8,
1963, the two were crewmen aboard a Marine UH34D helicopter conducting a search
mission for a downed friendly aircraft.
Denton and Ritchey's aircraft crashed some 43 miles west of Da Nang, South
Vietnam in a mountainous jungle terrain, in what was then hostile territory. The
exact cause of the accident is unknown (according to the Navy), although Joint
Casualty Resolution Center had some evidence that an air collision occurred
prior to the aircraft crashing.
Denton and Ritchey were initially placed in a casualty status of Missing and
later changed to Reported Dead. Since their remains were never recovered, they
are listed among the unaccounted for servicemen from the Vietnam war.
Denton and Ritchey are among nearly 2500 Americans still missing from the
Vietnam war. Nearly 10,000 reports have been received regarding these men since
war's end which have convinced many authorities that hundreds are still alive.
Whether Denton and Ritchey are among them is unknown, but as long as even one
man remains alive in enemy hands, we have failed as a nation.