Ralph Wayne Brower

Vietnam War
Unit37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromStow Ohio
Date of DeathNovember 9 1967
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Brower was a member of the 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Danang, South Vietnam. On November 9, 1967, he was the co-pilot of a Sikorsky Sea King Search and Rescue Helicopter (HH-3E) on a rescue mission at Khe San, Laos. During takeoff the helicopter was hit by hostile fire, crashed and burned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.