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B-52Ds take off from U-Tapao, Thailand, during Linebacker II, December 1972.
B-52Ds take off from U-Tapao, Thailand, during Linebacker II, December 1972. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Randolph Allen Perry JR.

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RANDOLPH ALLEN PERRY JR

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force

June 17, 1937 – December 20, 1972

Service record

Randolph Allen Perry JR, of Troy, Montana, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on December 20, 1972, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 1W · Line 97

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Navigator-Bombardier (1525B)
Unit (as recorded)
307 STRAT WG
Born
June 17, 1937
Home of record
Troy, Montana (Lincoln County)

Casualty

Date of loss
December 20, 1972
Country
North Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action

Context · from the records

What was happening

Seven names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1972. In December 1972, 75 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “307 STRAT WG”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

He died in North Vietnam while Linebacker II was under way. In Linebacker II (18–29 December 1972), B-52s and fighter-bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong for eleven days; fifteen B-52s were lost to SA-2 missiles before North Vietnam returned to the Paris talks.

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.

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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.