Frank Howard Briggs
Colonel
19TH TAC AIR SPT SQDN, 504TH TAC AIR SPT GROUP, 7TH AF
United States Air Force
Manaus, Brazil
April 17, 1928 to October 19, 1969
FRANK H BRIGGS is on the Wall at Panel W17, Line 90

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Frank H Briggs
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19 Nov 2001

But these also were godly men,
whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten.
Their offspring will continue forever,
and their glory will never be blotted out.
Their names live on generation after generation.
Ecclesiasticus 44:10-14

A memorial from his children,
Allison Brouillette
alintom@sbcglobal.net

Debora Lambert
debbi.m.lambert@lmco.com

Jeffrey Briggs
JBriggs89@aol.com 

Rosalie Chambers
namdurose@yahoo.com


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 19 Oct 1969 Lt Col Frank H. Briggs and Capt James C. Woods, both of the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron, were conducting a routine training and standardization flight from Bien Hoa Air Base in OV-10B 68-3786. Between Bien Hoa and Long Thanh North AAF the aircraft was hit by enemy fire in the starboard engine.

The starboard engine failed while on short GCA final. The resulting asymmetric thrust and drag forced the aircraft into a low-altitude starboard roll and its right wing impacted the ground, ending in a cart-wheeling crash on the runway. Neither Colonel Briggs nor Captain Woods was able to escape from the aircraft before impact and both were killed in the crash.


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