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HENRY ELMER MACCANN
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
December 11, 1931 – March 28, 1968
Service recordHenry Elmer Maccann, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on March 28, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 57
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 428 TFS
- Born
- December 11, 1931
- Home of record
- Marblehead, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 28, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “428 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 57
- DOUGLAS FRANKLIN LOUDENBACKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- PAUL EVANS MAYERSergeant Major · March 28, 1968
- FREDERICK DONALD MCCARTYSergeant First Class · March 28, 1968
- JIMMIE LEFON MCRAEPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LEE GRAHAMCaptain · Panel 46E, Line 54
From Marblehead
- EDGAR SNOW DOLIBERSpecialist Six · May 4, 1966
- GERALD EDWARD ISAACSONSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- DUNCAN BALFOUR SLEIGHSecond Lieutenant · November 6, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.