Gary Leslie Shank
Lieutenant
VA-56, CVW-5, USS MIDWAY, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
United States Navy
Prairie Village, Kansas
March 16, 1947 to August 09, 1974
(Incident Date July 23, 1972)
GARY L SHANK is on the Wall at Panel W1, Line 59

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 Gary L Shank
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28 May 2007

I wore Lt. Gary Shank's bracelet. On this site I find that his remains were returned along with Michael Fanning's. Can anyone send me information on his family?

Mary Hanna Clodfelter
hanna4763@aol.com


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

The Joint Task Force-Full Accounting report on LT Shank's loss contains the following information:

The report goes on to say that LT Shank was killed in the incident and his body buried in a local cemetery about 500 meters from the crash site. His remains were repatriated on 17 July 1984 with identification made official on 02 Aug 1984.

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