Willard Marion Collins

Vietnam War
Unit6250th Combat Support Group
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromQuincy Illinois
Date of DeathMarch 9 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Captain Collins was a member of the 6250th Combat Support Group. On March 9, 1966, he was the pilot of a Chinook Spooky Attack Aircraft Gunship I (AC-47D) on a combat mission over the A Shau Valley, Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, when his aircraft was shot down by hostile fire. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.