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MURRAY LAMAR WORTHAM
Captain · U.S. Air Force
May 26, 1943 – December 30, 1967
Service recordMurray Lamar Wortham, of San Augustine, Texas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on December 30, 1967, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 6
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
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 480 TFS
- Born
- May 26, 1943
- Home of record
- San Augustine, Texas (San Augustine County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 30, 1967
- Country
- Laos
- 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
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 30, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “480 TFS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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 33E, Line 6
- GEORGE JOSEPH WILLIAMSCorporal · December 30, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD ADAMSWarrant Officer 1 · December 31, 1967
- GLENN ARTHUR BELCHERMajor · December 31, 1967
- JAMES ARLIA BLANKENSHIPPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SMITH SWORDS IIIColonel · Panel 33E, Line 5
From San Augustine
- COTIES R SOWELLPrivate First Class · November 18, 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.