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Marine Maj Charles Franklin Wallace.
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Service number 058681. He died 28 Aug 67 vicinity of North Vietnam when the aircraft in which he was pilot exploded during a bombing run when hit by hostile fire. Body not recovered. Previously reported missing. Shot down 16 mikes North-Northeast od Dong Ha during a direct air support mission. Body not recovered.
FINAL MISSION OF MAJ CHARLES F. WALLACE. MAJ Charles F. Wallace was a Marine pilot serving with Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA 121), Marine Aircraft Group 12 (MAG-12), 1st Marine Air Wing. On August 28, 1967, MAJ Wallace was the pilot of a A-4E Skyhawk light-attack aircraft during Operation Kingfisher, a U.S. Marine Corps operation near Con Thien with the objective of blocking the entry of North Vietnamese Army forces into Quang Tri Province, RVN. While conducting a bombing run 16 miles northeast of Dong Ha, his Skyhawk crashed after it was believed to have received hostile ground fire. Subsequent searches of the crash site were conducted without locating the remains of Wallace. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]
This Veteran has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii. with another memorial in Ellisville Cemetery, Ellisville, Jones County, Mississippi.
The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die; in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legends are made. His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world...today he is called United States Marine. Semper Fi —Brother Marine.
