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JOSEPH CASTLEMAN MORRISON
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
November 13, 1930 – November 25, 1968
Service recordJoseph Castleman Morrison, of Lexington, Kentucky, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on November 25, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 60
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1233C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 555 TFS 432 TRW
- Born
- November 13, 1930
- Home of record
- Lexington, Kentucky (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 25, 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
48 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1968. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “555 TFS 432 TRW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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
Also on Panel 38W, Line 60
- JOSEPH ALLESSIEStaff Sergeant · November 25, 1968
- RAYMOND BRUCE MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- CHARLEY LE MEAR MOUNTPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- RALPH BUDDY MULKEY JRPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAN DEWAYNE FRANCISCOMajor · Panel 38W, Line 57
From Lexington
- WILLIAM KATHMAN BARRETTFirst Lieutenant · October 21, 1965
- DAYMON DONALD HORNStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1965
- VERNON EDWARD HOLLANDLance Corporal · December 18, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD STRADERStaff Sergeant · February 4, 1966
- JERRY LANG ONANPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- WILLIAM LOUIS MADISONChief Master Sergeant · May 15, 1966
- WILLIAM KEEN STOLL JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM HAMMSpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WILLIAM FRANCIS HOGAN JRCorporal · March 14, 1967
- WILLIAM P CENTERS JRSpecialist Five · May 21, 1967
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.