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HOLLINGSWORTH, HAL "T"
Name: Hal T Hollingsworth
Rank/Branch: O1/US Navy
Unit: Recon/Attack Squadron 9, USS RANGER (CVA-61)
Date of Birth: 29 June 1942
Home City of Record: Grace ID
Date of Loss: 16 January 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 085446N 1072406E (YQ640860)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C
Other Personnel In Incident: Charles D. Schoonover (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:
SYNOPSIS: LtCdr. Charles Schoonover was a pilot and Ensign Hal Hollingsworth a
co-pilot of an RA5C Vigilante aircraft assigned to Reconnaissance/Attack
Squadron 9 onboard the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CVA-61). On January 16,
1966, the two were launched from the carrier on a routine mission.
While the aircraft was airborne, it had mechanical difficulties and crashed at
sea. The accident is listed as having been non-battle related. The USS Ranger
was stationed about 75-100 miles off the coast of South Vietnam, south southeast
of Saigon in the South China Sea.
Hollingsworth and Schoonover are listed with honor among the missing because no
remains were found. Their cases seem quite clear. For others who are listed
missing, resolution is not as simple. Many were known to have survived their
loss incident. Quite a few were in radio contact with search teams and descri-
bing an advancing enemy. Some were photographed or recorded in captivity. Others
simply vanished without a trace.
Reports continue to mount that we abandoned hundreds of Americans to the enemy
when we left Southeast Asia. While Hollingsworth and Schoonover may not be among
them, one can imagine their proud willingness to fly one more mission to bring
in the intelligence needed to secure their rescue and flight to freedom.
LTCDR Charles D. Schoonover graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1954.