Carl Otis McCormick

Vietnam War
Unit20th Tactical Air Support Squadron
RankLieutenant Colonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromPerioa Illinois
Date of DeathOctober 6 1972
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Lieutenant Colonel McCormick was a member of the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron. On October 6, 1972, he was the pilot of a North American Rockwell Bronco (OV10-A) directing Naval gunfire near Da Nang, South Vietnam, when his aircraft exploded for unknown reasons and fell into the South China Sea. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.