Howard William Henninger

Vietnam War
Unit4th Air Commando Squadron
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromHanford California
Date of DeathMarch 13 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Colonel Henninger was a member of the 4th Air Commando Squadron, Danang Air Base, South Vietnam. On March 13, 1966, he was the pilot of a Chinook Spooky Attack Aircraft Gunship I (AC-47D) on a night armed reconnaissance of Route 92 running through the dense jungle covered mountains of Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. Radio contact was lost. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.