Craig Lee Farlow

Vietnam War
Unit101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division
RankChief Warrant Officer Second Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromCleveland Ohio
Date of DeathMay 16 1971
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Chief Warrant Officer, Second Class Farlow was a member of Company A, 101st Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. On May 16, 1971, he was aircraft commander off a Bell Iroquois Utility Helicopter (UH-1H) conducting an insertion of ARVN Marines into a landing zone near Hue, South Vietnam when his aircraft received heavy enemy fire, crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.