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 LTJG Richard C. Clark and his family are counting on you to make that phone call, fax, or email to the representatives of your state. Name: Richard Champ Clark Rank/Branch: O2/US Navy Squadron/Unit: VF-151/USS Coral Sea Date of Birth: 16 August 1941 Home City of Record: Tacoma,WA Date of Loss: 24 October 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 212800N 1052600E (WJ448736) Status (in 1973): Prisoner of War Category: 2 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4B This is the plane that Richard Champ Clark was in, along with CDR. Gillespie. Other Personnel In Incident: Charles R. Gillespie (released POW); Robert Frishmann, Earl G. Lewis (at same coordinates, same day, another F4) REMARKS: GOOD CHUTE/STATUS (in 1973)DIED IN CAPTIVITY/Body Not ReturnedPlease click on the "Home City of Record" to see who is ultimately responsible for the remains of LTJG Richard C. Clark. SYNOPSIS: On October 24, 1967, Ltjg. Richard Clark was flying as backseater aboard the F4B Phantom fighter jet flown by Commander Charles R. Gillespie on a bombing mission over the Hanoi, Haiphong and Vinh Phuc region of North Vietnam. The aircraft was one in a flight of two. Clark and Gillespie's aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missile and crashed in Vinh Phu Province. Other members of the flight observed two good parachutes, heard one electronic beacon signal, and observed one unidentified crew member on the ground. This is a picture of the SA-2 Guideline Missile used extensively in Vietnam by North Vietnamese troops. Please click on this picture to learn more about the Russian made Surface to Air Missiles. On the same day, the F4 flown by Earl Lewis and Robert Frishmann was shot down at the same coordinates. Frishmann relates that he "wasn't even diving when they hit me. I was flying. Bad luck!" Frishmann sustained a serious injury to his arm by missile fragments. Frishmann believed Lewis was dead, but after 4 hours, located him. Both were captured by the Vietnamese. The Vietnamese were able to save Frishmann's arm, but he lost his elbow, leaving the arm nearly 8 inches shorter than the other. A reporter, Oriana Fallaci, interviewed Frishmann for Look Magazine in July 1969. At that time, he had been held in solitary confinement for 18 months. Lewis, Frishmann and Gillespie were held in various locations in and around Hanoi as prisoners. At no time did any of them see Richard Clark, who had successfully ejected from the aircraft. Lt. Frishmann was released in August 1969 with the blessings of the POW community. His message to the world would reveal the torture endured by Americans held in Vietnam and cause a public outcry which would eventually help stop the torture and result in better treatment for the prisoners. Gillespie and Lewis were both released from Hanoi March 14, 1973 in the general prisoner release nearing the end of American involvement in the war in Vietnam. Cdr. Gillespie, in his debrief, stated that after the missile hit, smoke filled the cockpit, and as the intercom system failed, he gave an emergency hand signal to eject and he did not see Lt. Clark again. On October 24, Radio Hanoi announced that in the afternoon of October 24, eight U.S. war planes had been shot down and that a number of U.S. pilots had been captured. The U.S. correlates this information to Lt. Clark and placed him in prisoner of war classification. (Inexplicably, however, the Defense Intelligence Agency codes Clark as "category 2" which means only "suspected" enemy knowledge of his fate.) If Lt. Clark was captured, why did he not return home? Latest Update: Lt. Richard Champ Clark died in captivity, but, where is his remains? If he is one of the hundreds of Americans experts now believe are still deceased in captivity in Southeast Asia, what are we doing to bring his remains home? What did he think of us, and why did the American government leave him to die in captivity?? Is it because of greed, or maybe the "river of denial" ran like a stream, and covered over the truth as to his release from his hell on earth.Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Washington.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 site is owned by Mike Matteri [Next] [Previous] [Random] [List] [Info] [Join] 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 ]
This is the plane that Richard Champ Clark was in, along with CDR. Gillespie. Other Personnel In Incident: Charles R. Gillespie (released POW); Robert Frishmann, Earl G. Lewis (at same coordinates, same day, another F4) REMARKS: GOOD CHUTE/STATUS (in 1973)DIED IN CAPTIVITY/Body Not ReturnedPlease click on the "Home City of Record" to see who is ultimately responsible for the remains of LTJG Richard C. Clark.
SYNOPSIS: On October 24, 1967, Ltjg. Richard Clark was flying as backseater aboard the F4B Phantom fighter jet flown by Commander Charles R. Gillespie on a bombing mission over the Hanoi, Haiphong and Vinh Phuc region of North Vietnam. The aircraft was one in a flight of two.
Clark and Gillespie's aircraft was hit by a surface-to-air missile and crashed in Vinh Phu Province. Other members of the flight observed two good parachutes, heard one electronic beacon signal, and observed one unidentified crew member on the ground.
This is a picture of the SA-2 Guideline Missile used extensively in Vietnam by North Vietnamese troops. Please click on this picture to learn more about the Russian made Surface to Air Missiles.
On the same day, the F4 flown by Earl Lewis and Robert Frishmann was shot down at the same coordinates. Frishmann relates that he "wasn't even diving when they hit me. I was flying. Bad luck!" Frishmann sustained a serious injury to his arm by missile fragments. Frishmann believed Lewis was dead, but after 4 hours, located him. Both were captured by the Vietnamese.
The Vietnamese were able to save Frishmann's arm, but he lost his elbow, leaving the arm nearly 8 inches shorter than the other. A reporter, Oriana Fallaci, interviewed Frishmann for Look Magazine in July 1969. At that time, he had been held in solitary confinement for 18 months.
Lewis, Frishmann and Gillespie were held in various locations in and around Hanoi as prisoners. At no time did any of them see Richard Clark, who had successfully ejected from the aircraft.
Lt. Frishmann was released in August 1969 with the blessings of the POW community. His message to the world would reveal the torture endured by Americans held in Vietnam and cause a public outcry which would eventually help stop the torture and result in better treatment for the prisoners.
Gillespie and Lewis were both released from Hanoi March 14, 1973 in the general prisoner release nearing the end of American involvement in the war in Vietnam. Cdr. Gillespie, in his debrief, stated that after the missile hit, smoke filled the cockpit, and as the intercom system failed, he gave an emergency hand signal to eject and he did not see Lt. Clark again. On October 24, Radio Hanoi announced that in the afternoon of October 24, eight U.S. war planes had been shot down and that a number of U.S. pilots had been captured.
The U.S. correlates this information to Lt. Clark and placed him in prisoner of war classification. (Inexplicably, however, the Defense Intelligence Agency codes Clark as "category 2" which means only "suspected" enemy knowledge of his fate.)
If Lt. Clark was captured, why did he not return home? Latest Update: Lt. Richard Champ Clark died in captivity, but, where is his remains? If he is one of the hundreds of Americans experts now believe are still deceased in captivity in Southeast Asia, what are we doing to bring his remains home? What did he think of us, and why did the American government leave him to die in captivity?? Is it because of greed, or maybe the "river of denial" ran like a stream, and covered over the truth as to his release from his hell on earth.
Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Washington.
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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