ATTENTION ALL WEBSURFERS!!!Please click here to get information on H. Res. 103 (POW/MIA) Bill before the house right now. Please contact your congressman or congresswoman today through this link, and tell them that you support this bill, and you want them to do the same. Election time is coming up. Time to make them accountable. Servicemen like LTCDR Leonard Lee and his family are counting on you to make that phone call, fax, or email to the representatives of your state. This is the carrier that LTJG Roger Burnes Innes flew off of, The USS Kitty Hawk, and was the carrier that the USS Nimitz relieved about 9 years ago in the Arabian Gulf. Name: Roger Burns Innes Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy Unit: Fighter Squadron 114, USS KITTY HAWK (CVA 63) Date of Birth: 23 March 1943 Home City of Record: Chicago IL Date of Loss: 27 December 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 10600N 1054400E Status (in 1973): Missing In Action Category: 3 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B Others In Incident: Leonard Lee (missing) ROGER BURNS INNES REMAINS RETURNED!!! ID ANNOUNCED 08/29/00 Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. REMARKS: DEAD/IR 1516 0461 71 SYNOPSIS: LtCdr. Leonard Lee had one of the most sought jobs for a pilot. He flew aboard the F4 Phantom fighter jet. The aircraft saw so much combat in Vietnam that during the two year period of 1965 and 1966, 54 F4C's were lost. The C, D and E versions also downed 107 enemy MiGs. The Phantom's combat radius exceeded 900 miles and featured a maximum level speed of over Mach 2. Its navigation system was comprehensive and could guide the aircraft at a wide variety of levels and speeds. The navigation and bombing equipment was mostly operated by the "guy in back", the second man aboard. When Lee flew on an armed reconnaissance mission two days after Christmas 1967, his backseater was LTJG Roger B. Innes. Lee and Innes were to fly the lead aircraft in a section of two at Cap Falaise, North Vietnam. Lee reported a target, but had to position himself for a better strike angle due to poor weather. At this time his wingman was able to release his ordnance on the target. Radio communications with Lee's aircraft confirmed the strike. Lee began his bombing run immediately behind his wingman and was lost from the radar scope of the E2A radar control aircraft. No further contact was made with his aircraft. The wingman was unable to observe Lee due to his relative position and the overcast weather in the area, and proceeded out to sea in accordance with their mission briefing in case of emergency. A search and rescue effort was initiated but to no avail. No wreckage was sighted, and no emergency radio beacons were heard in the strike area. No anti-aircraft fire had been seen in the target area. Lee and Inne's aircraft went down about 50 miles west and slightly south of the city of Thanh Hoa in Nghe An Province, North Vietnam. Both men were classified Missing In Action. No one knew for sure if they bailed out successfully or died when their plane went down. A later intelligence report indicated that they were dead, but that information was never substantiated. The two remained missing, and their fates uncertain. Nearly 2500 Americans remain missing from American involvement in Indochina. Evidence continues to mount that some of them are alive and held captive. The tragedy is that these men who willingly served their country were abandoned - and know it. Isn't it time we brought them home? Leonard M. Lee was promoted to the rank of Captain, and Roger B. Innes was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander during the period they were maintained missing.If you would like to write to families of these missing servicemen, the only way I know is to go to this website, and follow the directions on the website. When you write the letters to the families, please make sure that you address it in reference to the missing serviceperson's family. This is how I got in touch with Mrs. Lucy Sennett.She is the wife of one of my missing servicemen Robert R. Sennett. I can only imagine what these families like Mrs. Lucy Sennett have been through of not knowing.This must be hell on earth for them. Please, let's make their lives easier by taking the torch for them and finding out what happened to their family member, and not accepting anything but the truth, and not subjecting ourselves to the "Presumptive Finding of Death" finding.As a person of this cause, I can honestly say, that those families expect nothing less. Let's NOT ACCEPT anything less. This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit Here. This Pentagon Pride Ring site is owned byMike Matteri Want to join the ring? Click here for info [Prev] [Skip Prev] [Random] [List Sites] [Next Five] [Skip Next] [Next] This site is owned by Mike Matteri [Next] [Previous] [Random] [List] [Info] [Join] Visit other Sites Now Join index Chat HQ This RingSurf Operation Black Flag Net Ringowned by Mike Matteri. [ Previous 5 Sites | Skip Previous | Previous | Next ] [ Skip Next | Next 5 Sites | Random Site | List Sites | Join ]
Name: Roger Burns Innes Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy Unit: Fighter Squadron 114, USS KITTY HAWK (CVA 63) Date of Birth: 23 March 1943 Home City of Record: Chicago IL Date of Loss: 27 December 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 10600N 1054400E Status (in 1973): Missing In Action Category: 3 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B Others In Incident: Leonard Lee (missing)
SYNOPSIS: LtCdr. Leonard Lee had one of the most sought jobs for a pilot. He flew aboard the F4 Phantom fighter jet. The aircraft saw so much combat in Vietnam that during the two year period of 1965 and 1966, 54 F4C's were lost.
The C, D and E versions also downed 107 enemy MiGs. The Phantom's combat radius exceeded 900 miles and featured a maximum level speed of over Mach 2.
Its navigation system was comprehensive and could guide the aircraft at a wide variety of levels and speeds.
The navigation and bombing equipment was mostly operated by the "guy in back", the second man aboard. When Lee flew on an armed reconnaissance mission two days after Christmas 1967, his backseater was LTJG Roger B. Innes.
Lee and Innes were to fly the lead aircraft in a section of two at Cap Falaise, North Vietnam.
Lee reported a target, but had to position himself for a better strike angle due to poor weather. At this time his wingman was able to release his ordnance on the target. Radio communications with Lee's aircraft confirmed the strike.
Lee began his bombing run immediately behind his wingman and was lost from the radar scope of the E2A radar control aircraft. No further contact was made with his aircraft.
The wingman was unable to observe Lee due to his relative position and the overcast weather in the area, and proceeded out to sea in accordance with their mission briefing in case of emergency.
A search and rescue effort was initiated but to no avail. No wreckage was sighted, and no emergency radio beacons were heard in the strike area. No anti-aircraft fire had been seen in the target area.
Lee and Inne's aircraft went down about 50 miles west and slightly south of the city of Thanh Hoa in Nghe An Province, North Vietnam. Both men were classified Missing In Action.
No one knew for sure if they bailed out successfully or died when their plane went down. A later intelligence report indicated that they were dead, but that information was never substantiated. The two remained missing, and their fates uncertain.
Nearly 2500 Americans remain missing from American involvement in Indochina. Evidence continues to mount that some of them are alive and held captive. The tragedy is that these men who willingly served their country were abandoned - and know it. Isn't it time we brought them home? Leonard M. Lee was promoted to the rank of Captain, and Roger B. Innes was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander during the period they were maintained missing.
If you would like to write to families of these missing servicemen, the only way I know is to go to this website, and follow the directions on the website.
When you write the letters to the families, please make sure that you address it in reference to the missing serviceperson's family.
This is how I got in touch with Mrs. Lucy Sennett.She is the wife of one of my missing servicemen Robert R. Sennett. I can only imagine what these families like Mrs. Lucy Sennett have been through of not knowing.This must be hell on earth for them.
Please, let's make their lives easier by taking the torch for them and finding out what happened to their family member, and not accepting anything but the truth, and not subjecting ourselves to the "Presumptive Finding of Death" finding.As a person of this cause, I can honestly say, that those families expect nothing less. Let's NOT ACCEPT anything less.
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