Ralph Harold Angstadt

Vietnam War
Unit37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron
RankLieutenant Colonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromFleetwood Pennsylvania
Date of DeathOctober 18 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Lieutenant Colonel Angstadt was a member of the 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron. On October 18, 1966, he was the 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.