Melvin Earl Ladewig
Captain, U.S. Air Force
497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Entered the Service From: Englewood, Colorado
Date of Birth: August 08, 1944
Date of Death: August 24, 1968
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court A
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Captain Ladewig was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn Airbase, Thailand. On August 24, 1968, he was the weapons systems officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on an armed reconnaissance 10 miles southwest of Quang Khe, Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. After a bombing run his aircraft crashed and exploded. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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As the flight was over Quang Binh province about 10 miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, a bombing run was made and afterwards, Read's aircraft as seen as a large fireball on the ground by the pilots of the lead aircraft. They reported no radio contact with either pilot prior to the
crash, nor did they see parachutes or hear any emergency radio beeper signals to indicate Read and Ladewig ejected from the aircraft prior to its crashing.
However, Ladewig and Read were not declared dead, so the possibility existed that they safely left the aircraft. Both were listed Missing in Action.
Captain, U.S. Air Force
497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Entered the Service From: Englewood, Colorado
Date of Birth: August 08, 1944
Date of Death: August 24, 1968
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court A
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Captain Ladewig was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn Airbase, Thailand. On August 24, 1968, he was the weapons systems officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on an armed reconnaissance 10 miles southwest of Quang Khe, Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. After a bombing run his aircraft crashed and exploded. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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As the flight was over Quang Binh province about 10 miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, a bombing run was made and afterwards, Read's aircraft as seen as a large fireball on the ground by the pilots of the lead aircraft. They reported no radio contact with either pilot prior to the
crash, nor did they see parachutes or hear any emergency radio beeper signals to indicate Read and Ladewig ejected from the aircraft prior to its crashing.
However, Ladewig and Read were not declared dead, so the possibility existed that they safely left the aircraft. Both were listed Missing in Action.
Melvin Earl Ladewig
Captain, U.S. Air Force
497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Entered the Service From: Englewood, Colorado
Date of Birth: August 08, 1944
Date of Death: August 24, 1968
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court A
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Captain Ladewig was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn Airbase, Thailand. On August 24, 1968, he was the weapons systems officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on an armed reconnaissance 10 miles southwest of Quang Khe, Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. After a bombing run his aircraft crashed and exploded. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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As the flight was over Quang Binh province about 10 miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, a bombing run was made and afterwards, Read's aircraft as seen as a large fireball on the ground by the pilots of the lead aircraft. They reported no radio contact with either pilot prior to the
crash, nor did they see parachutes or hear any emergency radio beeper signals to indicate Read and Ladewig ejected from the aircraft prior to its crashing.
However, Ladewig and Read were not declared dead, so the possibility existed that they safely left the aircraft. Both were listed Missing in Action.
Captain, U.S. Air Force
497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Entered the Service From: Englewood, Colorado
Date of Birth: August 08, 1944
Date of Death: August 24, 1968
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court A
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Captain Ladewig was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn Airbase, Thailand. On August 24, 1968, he was the weapons systems officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on an armed reconnaissance 10 miles southwest of Quang Khe, Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. After a bombing run his aircraft crashed and exploded. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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As the flight was over Quang Binh province about 10 miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, a bombing run was made and afterwards, Read's aircraft as seen as a large fireball on the ground by the pilots of the lead aircraft. They reported no radio contact with either pilot prior to the
crash, nor did they see parachutes or hear any emergency radio beeper signals to indicate Read and Ladewig ejected from the aircraft prior to its crashing.
However, Ladewig and Read were not declared dead, so the possibility existed that they safely left the aircraft. Both were listed Missing in Action.
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