John Henry Sothoron Long

Vietnam War
Unit37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromMedia Pennsylvania
Date of DeathOctober 18 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Long was a member of 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron. On October 18, 1966, he was the co-pilot of a Grumman Albatross Utility Helicopter (HU-16B) on a rescue mission of a downed pilot in the Gulf of Tonkin about 80 miles off the China coast. Contact with the aircraft was lost. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.