Keavin Lee Terrell: Killed/Body Not Recovered


Kevin Lee Terrell: Killed/Body Not Receovered

Over 2000 servicemen who served in Vietnam were never accounted for. Are they dead? Are they still alive? Are they still being held as POW's?

For the family and friends of these men, these questions haunt their existence and leave them with the question: "Do I mourn for the dead or pray for the well-being of a living man?"

Reports of sightings of Americans in unexpected places are still being made and there is hope that a number of missing Americans who served in Vietnam are still alive.

Whether we were for or against US intervention in Vietnam, we should all be for taking care of service personnel, including making every effort to restore these persons to their homeland. Several organizations are using every means available to them, including the internet, to bring the plight of these lost men to the attention of the public and the government.

Please take a moment to read about Keavin Lee Terrell who apparently died in the waters of North Vietnam 3 days before his 20th birthday. Sometimes persons "lost" at sea were recovered by the North Vietnamese. Keavin may have been one of those, but we don't know.

His Stats and Story

Rank/Branch: E4/USN

Date of Birth: 05 October 1949

Home City of Record: Baton Rouge LA

Date of Loss: 02 October 1969

Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water Loss

Coordinates: 175402N 1073602E (YE754810)

Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered Category: 5

Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: C2A

Refno: 2004

Personnel In Incident: Terry L. Beck; Richard W. Bell; Michael L. Bowman; Frank Bytheway; Rolando C. Dayao; Donald C. Dean; Herbert H. Dilger; Carl J. Ellerd; James J. Fowler; Roy G. Fowler; Leonardo M. Gan; Paul E. Gore; William D. Gorsuch; Rayford J. Hill; Delvin L. Kohler; Howard M. Koslosky; Robert B. Leonard; Richard A. Livingston; Ronald W. Montgomery; William R. Moore; Paul K. Moser; Kenneth M. Prentice; Fidel G. Salazar; Keavin L. Terrell; Michael J. Tye; Reynaldo R. Viado (all missing)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.

SYNOPSIS: On October 2, 1969, a C2A "Greyhound" cargo aircraft from Reserve Cargo Squadron 50 departed Cubi Point Naval Air Station, Republic of the Philippines on a shuttle flight to various aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, including the USS CONSTELLATION, the USS WALKER, the USS HAMMER, and the USS LONG BEACH.

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