Wayne Benjamin Wolfkeil

Vietnam War
Unit6th Special Operations Squadron
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromEilkes Barre Pennsylvania
Date of DeathAugust 9 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Colonel Wolfkeil was a member of the 6th Special Operations Squadron at Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam. On August 9, 1968, he was the pilot of a Douglas Attack Skyraider (A-1H) on a mission about 25 miles west of Dak To, in Attopeu Province, Laos, when his aircraft made a sharp right turn and crash. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.