Kenneth Earl Walker

Vietnam War
Unit1st Air Commando Squadron, Pleiku
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromLansing Michigan
Date of DeathOctober 2 1964
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Walker was a member of the 1st Air Commando Squadron at Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam. On October 2, 1964, he was the pilot of a Douglas Skyraider Attack Aircraft (A1-E) on a mission over Tra Vinh Province, South Vietnam, when the aircraft was disabled from hostile fire and crashed into the South China Sea. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.