Charles Kennedy Lovelace
Major
8TH BOMB SQDN, 33RD TAC GROUP, 13TH AF United States Air Force New Bern, North Carolina January 22, 1935 to June 22, 1965 CHARLES K LOVELACE is on the Wall at Panel 2E, Line 16 |
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MAJ CHARLES KENNEDY LOVELACE
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From his crewmate's cousin. |
Mission NotesThe B-57 Canberra bombers of the 8th and 13th Bomb Squadrons were deployed to South Vietnam beginning in late 1964 and undertook a variety of missions including both strike and "pathfinder" missions for other aircraft.On the night of 21/22 June 1965, Captains Charles K. Lovelace, pilot, and William E. Cordero, navigator, launched from Tan Son Nhut Air Base in B-57B tail number 53-3910 for a night flare mission (i.e., a pathfinder mission for other strike aircraft) over North Vietnam's southernmost province in the vicinity of the Lao/NVN border. The B-57B went down and both crewmen were lost. Later in the war their remains were recovered and laid to rest in Section 46 of Arlington National Cemetery, adjacent to the Memorial Amphitheater. |
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