GRAVE SITE OF AMERICAN PILOT (ACQ DATE IS 740927)

Created: 9/27/1974

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A TRAINED VIETNAMESE DEBRIEFER. FROM RALIIERJ

HMO RALLIED TO THE GQVEWfofcHT OF VIETHAM (GVtl) ON

94VM 0UTP0S1 AT HO CONG, PHUOC IIIHH DISTRICT,

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TAY Rim PROVINCE, SOUTHTIO HAD BEEN HIGHLY EDUCATED,ODERATE DEGREE OF RECALL AND APPEARED TO BE VERY INTELLIGENT. HE HAS COOPERATIVE DURING DEBRIEFING, ALTHOUGH HIS REPORTING RELIABILITY HAS NOT BEEH ESTABL1SICD, LOCAL RESIDENTSBOUT THE CRASH ANDERSONALLY OBSERVED THE IDLKTIr'ICATION CARD OF THE PILOT AND THE DISPLAY OF THE DCttNED HAKE.

1. ENCLOSEDKETCH OF THE CRASH SITE OF AN AMERICAN MILITARY PLANE MUCH CRASHED ABOUT1 IN THEREAAMLET IN THE VILLAGE OF SAN DAN, KRATIE DISTRICT, KRATIE PROVINCE, CAMBODIA, AND THE BURIAL SITE OfItHE PILOT. THE PILOT WASOM THE PLANE j

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UPON IMPACT MID APPARENTLY DIEDOCAL CAtBOOIANS BURIED THE BODY If! THE AREAHE CRASH SITE AFTER PUMMEL1KG THE HEAD. THE FOLLOV-INC WERE THE TWO LOCAL THEORIES AS TO THE CAUSE OE THE CRASH:

PLANE HAS CONDUCTING AN AIR STRIKE AND DIVED VERYTHE GROUND BUT EOR SOME REASON WAS UNABLE TO REGAIN ALTITUDE

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PLANE, SWOOPING TO EIRE AT THREE VIET CONG (VC)HIGHWAYN SAN DAN,OW AND HAS SHOT DOWN.

GREEN IDENTIFICATION (ID) CARD OF THE PILOT, SOMEBILLSKGUAGfc HAP HERE DISPLAYED UNTIL ABOUT

11 IN THE CITY OF KRATIE. JUDGING FROM THE PHOTO ON THETHE PILOT WAS AN AMERICAN CAUCASIAN, ABOUTEARS OLD, WITH AHAIR. THEAVE,^ THEHE LETfERS "SajL" (FIELD COMMENT: THE SOURCE STATEDEliENfARY DEBRIEFINGP1CHURES VMODN

RISONERS OF WAR AND MISSING IN ACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA" RESEMBLED THE ID CARD PHOTO, WITH PHOTOM APPEARING TOLOSER RESEMBLANCE.)

PLANE, WHICH WAS ESSENTIALLY INTACTOR THE MISSING

REAR SECTION OF IiS FUSELAGE, WAS TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER THE CRASH BY

KHMER COBWNIST (KC) OFFICIALS TO THE CITY Or KRATIE, WHERE IT HAS STILL

ON DISPIAY AS Or4 AT THE INFORMATION OFFICE. (SOURCEuaci ]

i PROVIDED THE ATTACHED MAP SMOKING THE SITES OF THE CRASH A'lD THE

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GRAVE. I SAID THAI All PEBWtFHl RESIDENTS OF KftATU HERE AWARE OF

lilt CRASH A'lDRttlXCC III Of'JIAllOT OFFICE

JWTIE. HAS OK OF IKE OFFICIALS WW HASCACIC OF

THL CRASH AND BURIAL.) OMMENT: USSEQUEIIT DEBRIEFINGMjK*! -

I, I SAID THAT THE DOMED HAKE MAS EITHER A'l

" 0 SAID HE MAO COLLECTED PARTS Or THE PLANES FOR LOCAL SALE REPORTED THAT THREE OTHER AMERICAN MILITARY FIANES,0 JETS AND WE FUME Of THE TYPE MUCH CRASHED INAD . CRASHED AROUNDUS6LE NEAR SVAY CREAllNliOL DISTRICT, KRATIE PROVINCE, CAMBODIA.

S. OMCiT; THE JOINT CASUALTY RESOLUTION CI TITER (JfRC) EVALUATES THIS REPORT AS FOUWS: EARCH OF JCRC RFCORDS HAS COX-DO'CTCDiLcin lilt KtruwiLU IWH COORDINATESllIX-MOTH PARAMETER HASHE REPORTED CRASH. THE SEARCH REVEALED ONLYED-HINGSES WITHIN THE INDICATED PARAHTERS. 0 HAS LKUhTD41 AT THE PILOT HAS PiRfbTiiKGF III STRAFING PASS OVER THE TARGET WHEN HIS AIRCRAFT WAS OBSERVED TO BF STREAHIIK5 WHITE SMOKE PRIOR TO IMPACT. THE OTHER LOSS HAS* AH OV-lOA WHICH LAST HAD RADAR CONTACT3 ON1 IN THE VICINITY OF THELIGHT PLAN INCUSED RECONHAJSSWCC ALONG ROUTEROM SASftOREHG TRENG THE PILOTS OF BOTH AIRCRAFT WERE CAUCASIANS WITH DARK HAIR. HE FrlOOU PILOT WASND THEILOT NEITHER OF THE PILOT'S NAMES BEGINS WITH "SCHEI,"

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BUT THE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION BASED OH THE ID PHOTO COULTJ CORRELATE UITH EITHER OF THE IHO MEN. ASSUMING THAT THEILOTED BY AIR FORCEAROLD, FOLLOWED THE II.IGIIT PI/VI, IT MOULD HAVE PASSEDHE DEIfERAL AREA Of THE CRASH SITE. THE REPORT HAY CORRELATE WITH THEINEBERGLP. WHO IS CURRENTLY CARRIEDISSING STATUS.")

6. FIFLD DISSEfl: DEFENSECHE FOR JCRC REPRESENTATIVE IN SAIGON: SEKTCPACCPAC AND POI.APSS/iG AND VIENTIANElY).

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