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LOWRY, TYRRELL GORDON
Name: Tyrrell Gordon Lowry
Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force
Unit: 441st Bombardment Squadron
Date of Birth: 27 February 1932
Home City of Record: Portland OR
Date of Loss: 18 June 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 173000N 1180000E
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: B52
Other Personnel in Incident: James A. Marshall; James M. Gehrig Jr.; Robert L.
Armond; William E. Neville; Harold J. Roberts Jr.; Frank P. Watson (all missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 March 1991 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Copyright 1991 Homecoming II
Project.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Boeing B52 Stratofortress bombers have long been the Air Force's most
important strategic bomber. Used heavily in Vietnam, the venerable aircraft
continued its role throughout the Southeast Asia conflict and played an
important role in the Persian Gulf war two decades later.
On June 18, 1965, two B52 aircraft were performing a mission over the South
China Sea when they collided. The aircraft were approximately 250 miles offshore
at the point of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) when the accident occurred.
Apparently the crew of one of the aircraft survived or were recovered, but the
entire crew of the second remain missing.
The missing crew includes pilots Capt. Robert L. Armond and 1Lt. James A.
Marshall, and crewmembers Maj. James M. Gehrig, Capt. Tyrrell G. Lowry, Capt.
Frank P. Watson, TSgt. William E. Neville, and MSgt. Harold J. Roberts Jr.
All the crew and passengers on board the B52 downed that day were confirmed
dead. It is unfortunate, but a cold reality of war that their remains were not
recoverable. They are listed with honor among the missing because their remains
cannot be buried with honor at home.
Others who are missing do not have such clear-cut cases. Some were known
captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in
radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared.
Since the war ended, over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who
claim to know about Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, and several million
documents have been studied. U.S. Government experts cannot seem to agree
whether Americans are there alive or not. Detractors say it would be far too
politically difficult to bring the men they believe to be alive home, and the
U.S. is content to negotiate for remains.
Well over 1000 first-hand, eye-witness reports of American prisoners still alive
in Southeast Asia have been received by 1990. Most of them are still classified.
If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead, why the secrecy after so
many years? If the men are alive, why are they not home?