CDR Green's remains were recovered in 2008 and were identified in 2010.
Name: Frank Clifford Green, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 212, USS HANCOCK (CVA 19)
Date of Birth: 05 June 1935
Home City of Record: Waskom TX
Date of Loss: 10 July 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 201100N 1055700E (WH871207)Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4F
Refno: 1895
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 April 1990 from one or more ofthe following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: The USS HANCOCK first saw action in Vietnam when aircraft from her decks flew strikes against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor in late 1944. The Essex class carrier, extensively modernized, returned to Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam war. The attack carriers USS CORAL SEA, USS HANCOCK and USS RANGER formed Task Force 77, the carrier striking force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. The HANCOCK was the smallest type of flattop to operate in the Vietnam theater, but pilots from her fighter and attack squadrons distinguished themselves throughout the duration of the war. On June 12, 1966, Commander Hal Marr, the CO of VF-211 gained the first F8 Russian MiG kill.
Commander Frank C. Green was a pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 212 onboard the USS HANCOCK. On July 10, 1972, CDR Green was launched in his A4F Skyhawk aircraft to lead a night armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam.
Green and his wingman had completed the armed reconnaissance of an assigned road segment and proceeded on their secondary mission to locate and destroyany targets of opportunity they might find. They sighted vehicle lights some distance south of their position and flew in that direction in order to make an unlighted bomb attack. Shortly after the attack, the wingman observed a small flash in the general target area immediately followed by a large, fuel type, secondary explosion on the ground. Not hearing an acknowledgement that CDR Green was off the target or a reply to his comments about the explosion, the wingman suspected that the explosion might be CDR Green's aircraft.
Search and rescue efforts were initiated immediately, but attempts made to contact CDR Green met with negative results. Since it was not known if CDR Green was killed in the crash of his aircraft or survived to be captured, Green was placed in a casualty status of Missing in Action. Since the area in which he crashed (about 5 miles southwest of the city of Ninh Binh in Ninh Binh Province) was near a heavily populated area,there is every reason to believe the North Vietnamese could tell us what happened to CDR Frank C. Green.
Frank Clifford Green Jr
Commander
PERSONAL DATA
Home of Record: Waskom, TX
Date of birth: 06/05/1935
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MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Navy
Grade at loss: O5
Rank: Commander
ID No: 437465409
MOS: 1310: Unrestricted Line Officer (Pilot)
Length Service: **
Unit: VA-212, CVW-21, USS HANCOCK, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: Not Recorded
Incident Date: 07/10/1972
Casualty Date: 10/02/1978
Age at Loss: 43 (based on date declared dead)
Location: Province not reported, North Vietnam
Remains: 1978 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Identified: 11/01/2010
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Pilot
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GreenFC01a.htm
ON THE WALL Panel W1 Line 55
Awarded: Purple Heart, Air Medal, National Defence Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Name: Frank Clifford Green, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 212, USS HANCOCK (CVA 19)
Date of Birth: 05 June 1935
Home City of Record: Waskom TX
Date of Loss: 10 July 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 201100N 1055700E (WH871207)Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4F
Refno: 1895
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 April 1990 from one or more ofthe following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: The USS HANCOCK first saw action in Vietnam when aircraft from her decks flew strikes against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor in late 1944. The Essex class carrier, extensively modernized, returned to Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam war. The attack carriers USS CORAL SEA, USS HANCOCK and USS RANGER formed Task Force 77, the carrier striking force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. The HANCOCK was the smallest type of flattop to operate in the Vietnam theater, but pilots from her fighter and attack squadrons distinguished themselves throughout the duration of the war. On June 12, 1966, Commander Hal Marr, the CO of VF-211 gained the first F8 Russian MiG kill.
Commander Frank C. Green was a pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 212 onboard the USS HANCOCK. On July 10, 1972, CDR Green was launched in his A4F Skyhawk aircraft to lead a night armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam.
Green and his wingman had completed the armed reconnaissance of an assigned road segment and proceeded on their secondary mission to locate and destroyany targets of opportunity they might find. They sighted vehicle lights some distance south of their position and flew in that direction in order to make an unlighted bomb attack. Shortly after the attack, the wingman observed a small flash in the general target area immediately followed by a large, fuel type, secondary explosion on the ground. Not hearing an acknowledgement that CDR Green was off the target or a reply to his comments about the explosion, the wingman suspected that the explosion might be CDR Green's aircraft.
Search and rescue efforts were initiated immediately, but attempts made to contact CDR Green met with negative results. Since it was not known if CDR Green was killed in the crash of his aircraft or survived to be captured, Green was placed in a casualty status of Missing in Action. Since the area in which he crashed (about 5 miles southwest of the city of Ninh Binh in Ninh Binh Province) was near a heavily populated area,there is every reason to believe the North Vietnamese could tell us what happened to CDR Frank C. Green.
Frank Clifford Green Jr
Commander
PERSONAL DATA
Home of Record: Waskom, TX
Date of birth: 06/05/1935
This whole page © Copyright 1997-2012 www.VirtualWall.org
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Navy
Grade at loss: O5
Rank: Commander
ID No: 437465409
MOS: 1310: Unrestricted Line Officer (Pilot)
Length Service: **
Unit: VA-212, CVW-21, USS HANCOCK, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: Not Recorded
Incident Date: 07/10/1972
Casualty Date: 10/02/1978
Age at Loss: 43 (based on date declared dead)
Location: Province not reported, North Vietnam
Remains: 1978 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Identified: 11/01/2010
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Pilot
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GreenFC01a.htm
ON THE WALL Panel W1 Line 55
Awarded: Purple Heart, Air Medal, National Defence Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
CDR Green's remains were recovered in 2008 and were identified in 2010.
Name: Frank Clifford Green, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 212, USS HANCOCK (CVA 19)
Date of Birth: 05 June 1935
Home City of Record: Waskom TX
Date of Loss: 10 July 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 201100N 1055700E (WH871207)Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4F
Refno: 1895
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 April 1990 from one or more ofthe following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: The USS HANCOCK first saw action in Vietnam when aircraft from her decks flew strikes against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor in late 1944. The Essex class carrier, extensively modernized, returned to Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam war. The attack carriers USS CORAL SEA, USS HANCOCK and USS RANGER formed Task Force 77, the carrier striking force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. The HANCOCK was the smallest type of flattop to operate in the Vietnam theater, but pilots from her fighter and attack squadrons distinguished themselves throughout the duration of the war. On June 12, 1966, Commander Hal Marr, the CO of VF-211 gained the first F8 Russian MiG kill.
Commander Frank C. Green was a pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 212 onboard the USS HANCOCK. On July 10, 1972, CDR Green was launched in his A4F Skyhawk aircraft to lead a night armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam.
Green and his wingman had completed the armed reconnaissance of an assigned road segment and proceeded on their secondary mission to locate and destroyany targets of opportunity they might find. They sighted vehicle lights some distance south of their position and flew in that direction in order to make an unlighted bomb attack. Shortly after the attack, the wingman observed a small flash in the general target area immediately followed by a large, fuel type, secondary explosion on the ground. Not hearing an acknowledgement that CDR Green was off the target or a reply to his comments about the explosion, the wingman suspected that the explosion might be CDR Green's aircraft.
Search and rescue efforts were initiated immediately, but attempts made to contact CDR Green met with negative results. Since it was not known if CDR Green was killed in the crash of his aircraft or survived to be captured, Green was placed in a casualty status of Missing in Action. Since the area in which he crashed (about 5 miles southwest of the city of Ninh Binh in Ninh Binh Province) was near a heavily populated area,there is every reason to believe the North Vietnamese could tell us what happened to CDR Frank C. Green.
Frank Clifford Green Jr
Commander
PERSONAL DATA
Home of Record: Waskom, TX
Date of birth: 06/05/1935
This whole page © Copyright 1997-2012 www.VirtualWall.org
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Navy
Grade at loss: O5
Rank: Commander
ID No: 437465409
MOS: 1310: Unrestricted Line Officer (Pilot)
Length Service: **
Unit: VA-212, CVW-21, USS HANCOCK, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: Not Recorded
Incident Date: 07/10/1972
Casualty Date: 10/02/1978
Age at Loss: 43 (based on date declared dead)
Location: Province not reported, North Vietnam
Remains: 1978 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Identified: 11/01/2010
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Pilot
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GreenFC01a.htm
ON THE WALL Panel W1 Line 55
Awarded: Purple Heart, Air Medal, National Defence Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Name: Frank Clifford Green, Jr.
Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy
Unit: Attack Squadron 212, USS HANCOCK (CVA 19)
Date of Birth: 05 June 1935
Home City of Record: Waskom TX
Date of Loss: 10 July 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 201100N 1055700E (WH871207)Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4F
Refno: 1895
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 April 1990 from one or more ofthe following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: The USS HANCOCK first saw action in Vietnam when aircraft from her decks flew strikes against enemy vessels in Saigon Harbor in late 1944. The Essex class carrier, extensively modernized, returned to Vietnam during the early years of the Vietnam war. The attack carriers USS CORAL SEA, USS HANCOCK and USS RANGER formed Task Force 77, the carrier striking force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. The HANCOCK was the smallest type of flattop to operate in the Vietnam theater, but pilots from her fighter and attack squadrons distinguished themselves throughout the duration of the war. On June 12, 1966, Commander Hal Marr, the CO of VF-211 gained the first F8 Russian MiG kill.
Commander Frank C. Green was a pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 212 onboard the USS HANCOCK. On July 10, 1972, CDR Green was launched in his A4F Skyhawk aircraft to lead a night armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam.
Green and his wingman had completed the armed reconnaissance of an assigned road segment and proceeded on their secondary mission to locate and destroyany targets of opportunity they might find. They sighted vehicle lights some distance south of their position and flew in that direction in order to make an unlighted bomb attack. Shortly after the attack, the wingman observed a small flash in the general target area immediately followed by a large, fuel type, secondary explosion on the ground. Not hearing an acknowledgement that CDR Green was off the target or a reply to his comments about the explosion, the wingman suspected that the explosion might be CDR Green's aircraft.
Search and rescue efforts were initiated immediately, but attempts made to contact CDR Green met with negative results. Since it was not known if CDR Green was killed in the crash of his aircraft or survived to be captured, Green was placed in a casualty status of Missing in Action. Since the area in which he crashed (about 5 miles southwest of the city of Ninh Binh in Ninh Binh Province) was near a heavily populated area,there is every reason to believe the North Vietnamese could tell us what happened to CDR Frank C. Green.
Frank Clifford Green Jr
Commander
PERSONAL DATA
Home of Record: Waskom, TX
Date of birth: 06/05/1935
This whole page © Copyright 1997-2012 www.VirtualWall.org
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Navy
Grade at loss: O5
Rank: Commander
ID No: 437465409
MOS: 1310: Unrestricted Line Officer (Pilot)
Length Service: **
Unit: VA-212, CVW-21, USS HANCOCK, TF 77, 7TH FLEET
CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: Not Recorded
Incident Date: 07/10/1972
Casualty Date: 10/02/1978
Age at Loss: 43 (based on date declared dead)
Location: Province not reported, North Vietnam
Remains: 1978 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Identified: 11/01/2010
Casualty Type: Hostile, died while missing
Casualty Reason: Fixed Wing - Pilot
Casualty Detail: Air loss or crash over land
URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GreenFC01a.htm
ON THE WALL Panel W1 Line 55
Awarded: Purple Heart, Air Medal, National Defence Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Gravesite Details
Vietnam Wall Panel coordinates - 01W 055
Family Members
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