Vietnam War
Unit | 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division |
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Rank | Sergeant U.S. Army |
Entered Service From | Roanoke Virginia |
Date of Death | December 5 1968 |
Status | Missing In Action |
Memorialized |
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Honolulu Memorial |
Notes
Sergeant Evans was a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. On December 5, 1968, he was the pilot of a Hughes Cayuse Observation Helicopter on a reconnaissance mission of suspected enemy bunker complex in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam near Cambodia. As the aircraft approached the area it received ground fire crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.