Campbell was reported missing on Dec. 10, 1944, when he failed to return from a cargo flight to Hollandia, New Guinea. Campbell's last radio contact was in the Saidor area, when he reported bad weather. All searches were unsuccessful, and on July 15, 1949, the crew was declared KIA/non-recoverable.
The crash site was located from the air by Richard Leahy in 1975 at 11,000 feet in the Sarawaget Ranges of Morobe Province. In April 1979, Leahy and a team from the Central Identification Lab Hawaii (CILHI) recovered a piece of Campbell's jaw, and the remains of Cpl. Carl A. Drain. In November 2004, POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) returned to this crash site and recovered the remains of four servicemen: Campbell, 2nd Lt. Robert H. Cameron, Cpl. George E. Cunningham and Capt. Vlad Sasko, M.D.
He was the son of Mary E Campbell.
Air Corps
41st Squadron
317th Troop Carrier
The crash site was located from the air by Richard Leahy in 1975 at 11,000 feet in the Sarawaget Ranges of Morobe Province. In April 1979, Leahy and a team from the Central Identification Lab Hawaii (CILHI) recovered a piece of Campbell's jaw, and the remains of Cpl. Carl A. Drain. In November 2004, POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) returned to this crash site and recovered the remains of four servicemen: Campbell, 2nd Lt. Robert H. Cameron, Cpl. George E. Cunningham and Capt. Vlad Sasko, M.D.
He was the son of Mary E Campbell.
Air Corps
41st Squadron
317th Troop Carrier
Campbell was reported missing on Dec. 10, 1944, when he failed to return from a cargo flight to Hollandia, New Guinea. Campbell's last radio contact was in the Saidor area, when he reported bad weather. All searches were unsuccessful, and on July 15, 1949, the crew was declared KIA/non-recoverable.
The crash site was located from the air by Richard Leahy in 1975 at 11,000 feet in the Sarawaget Ranges of Morobe Province. In April 1979, Leahy and a team from the Central Identification Lab Hawaii (CILHI) recovered a piece of Campbell's jaw, and the remains of Cpl. Carl A. Drain. In November 2004, POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) returned to this crash site and recovered the remains of four servicemen: Campbell, 2nd Lt. Robert H. Cameron, Cpl. George E. Cunningham and Capt. Vlad Sasko, M.D.
He was the son of Mary E Campbell.
Air Corps
41st Squadron
317th Troop Carrier
The crash site was located from the air by Richard Leahy in 1975 at 11,000 feet in the Sarawaget Ranges of Morobe Province. In April 1979, Leahy and a team from the Central Identification Lab Hawaii (CILHI) recovered a piece of Campbell's jaw, and the remains of Cpl. Carl A. Drain. In November 2004, POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) returned to this crash site and recovered the remains of four servicemen: Campbell, 2nd Lt. Robert H. Cameron, Cpl. George E. Cunningham and Capt. Vlad Sasko, M.D.
He was the son of Mary E Campbell.
Air Corps
41st Squadron
317th Troop Carrier
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