On 21 September 1972, Major Roger W. Carroll, Jr., pilot; and 1st Lt. Dwight W. Cook, weapons systems officer; comprised the crew of an F4D (serial # ..-8769), call sign "Joyhop 01," that departed Ubon as the lead aircraft in a flight that was conducting a night operational mission against Pathet Lao forces operating in the strategic Plaine des Jarres, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos.
At 0355 hours, Major Carroll and 1st Lt. Cook were making an attack pass on a target moving along a north/south primary road identified as Route 5 when their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire. The onsite Forward Air Controller (FAC) operating with them observed the Phantom crash. In the pre-dawn darkness, he saw no parachutes and heard no emergency radio beepers.
Search and rescue aircraft were called in, but they were unable to locate ant sign of Major Carroll or 1st Lt. Cook. Because the area was under total enemy control, no ground search was possible. At the time the aerial search was terminated, Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were immediately listed Missing in Action.
In September 1993, the first of four joint crash site excavations was conducted with personnel from the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting (JTFFA). The other excavations took place during March 1994, April 1994 and June 1994. During the March excavation a bone fragment was found. Another team found Dwight Cook's ID card, wreckage and "pilot related material" along with another piece of human bone in June 1994.
The two bone fragments were transported to the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CIL-HI) for examination shortly after the site excavation was completed. After examining the bone fragments, CIL-HI personnel determined they were too small and fragmented for DNA testing.
The fact that 1st Lt. Cook's blood chit and ID card were found at the crash site went toward the circumstantial identification of the remains of both crewmen. In the end Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were simply identified as a "group identification" on 23 October 1995. Their families buried the two bone fragments in one grave with a headstone bearing both men's names.
At 0355 hours, Major Carroll and 1st Lt. Cook were making an attack pass on a target moving along a north/south primary road identified as Route 5 when their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire. The onsite Forward Air Controller (FAC) operating with them observed the Phantom crash. In the pre-dawn darkness, he saw no parachutes and heard no emergency radio beepers.
Search and rescue aircraft were called in, but they were unable to locate ant sign of Major Carroll or 1st Lt. Cook. Because the area was under total enemy control, no ground search was possible. At the time the aerial search was terminated, Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were immediately listed Missing in Action.
In September 1993, the first of four joint crash site excavations was conducted with personnel from the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting (JTFFA). The other excavations took place during March 1994, April 1994 and June 1994. During the March excavation a bone fragment was found. Another team found Dwight Cook's ID card, wreckage and "pilot related material" along with another piece of human bone in June 1994.
The two bone fragments were transported to the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CIL-HI) for examination shortly after the site excavation was completed. After examining the bone fragments, CIL-HI personnel determined they were too small and fragmented for DNA testing.
The fact that 1st Lt. Cook's blood chit and ID card were found at the crash site went toward the circumstantial identification of the remains of both crewmen. In the end Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were simply identified as a "group identification" on 23 October 1995. Their families buried the two bone fragments in one grave with a headstone bearing both men's names.
On 21 September 1972, Major Roger W. Carroll, Jr., pilot; and 1st Lt. Dwight W. Cook, weapons systems officer; comprised the crew of an F4D (serial # ..-8769), call sign "Joyhop 01," that departed Ubon as the lead aircraft in a flight that was conducting a night operational mission against Pathet Lao forces operating in the strategic Plaine des Jarres, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos.
At 0355 hours, Major Carroll and 1st Lt. Cook were making an attack pass on a target moving along a north/south primary road identified as Route 5 when their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire. The onsite Forward Air Controller (FAC) operating with them observed the Phantom crash. In the pre-dawn darkness, he saw no parachutes and heard no emergency radio beepers.
Search and rescue aircraft were called in, but they were unable to locate ant sign of Major Carroll or 1st Lt. Cook. Because the area was under total enemy control, no ground search was possible. At the time the aerial search was terminated, Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were immediately listed Missing in Action.
In September 1993, the first of four joint crash site excavations was conducted with personnel from the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting (JTFFA). The other excavations took place during March 1994, April 1994 and June 1994. During the March excavation a bone fragment was found. Another team found Dwight Cook's ID card, wreckage and "pilot related material" along with another piece of human bone in June 1994.
The two bone fragments were transported to the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CIL-HI) for examination shortly after the site excavation was completed. After examining the bone fragments, CIL-HI personnel determined they were too small and fragmented for DNA testing.
The fact that 1st Lt. Cook's blood chit and ID card were found at the crash site went toward the circumstantial identification of the remains of both crewmen. In the end Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were simply identified as a "group identification" on 23 October 1995. Their families buried the two bone fragments in one grave with a headstone bearing both men's names.
At 0355 hours, Major Carroll and 1st Lt. Cook were making an attack pass on a target moving along a north/south primary road identified as Route 5 when their aircraft was struck by enemy anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire. The onsite Forward Air Controller (FAC) operating with them observed the Phantom crash. In the pre-dawn darkness, he saw no parachutes and heard no emergency radio beepers.
Search and rescue aircraft were called in, but they were unable to locate ant sign of Major Carroll or 1st Lt. Cook. Because the area was under total enemy control, no ground search was possible. At the time the aerial search was terminated, Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were immediately listed Missing in Action.
In September 1993, the first of four joint crash site excavations was conducted with personnel from the Joint Task Force for Full Accounting (JTFFA). The other excavations took place during March 1994, April 1994 and June 1994. During the March excavation a bone fragment was found. Another team found Dwight Cook's ID card, wreckage and "pilot related material" along with another piece of human bone in June 1994.
The two bone fragments were transported to the Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CIL-HI) for examination shortly after the site excavation was completed. After examining the bone fragments, CIL-HI personnel determined they were too small and fragmented for DNA testing.
The fact that 1st Lt. Cook's blood chit and ID card were found at the crash site went toward the circumstantial identification of the remains of both crewmen. In the end Roger Carroll and Dwight Cook were simply identified as a "group identification" on 23 October 1995. Their families buried the two bone fragments in one grave with a headstone bearing both men's names.
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