Richard Jay Hentz

Vietnam War
Unit138th Aviation Company
RankSpecialist 5 U.S. Army
Entered Service FromOshkosh Wisconsin
Date of DeathMarch 4 1971
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Specialist, Fifth Class Hentz was a member of 138th Army Security Agency (ASA) Company, 224th ASA Battalion, U.S. Army Security Group. On March 4, 1971, he was a crewman of a Beech Ute Test Aircraft (JU-21A) on a combat mission over the Demilitarized Zone over North Vietnam when contact was lost. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.