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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Michael Tucker.

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TIMOTHY MICHAEL TUCKER

Captain · U.S. Air Force

March 16, 1946 – December 24, 1971

Service record

Timothy Michael Tucker, of Las Animas, Colorado, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on December 24, 1971, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 2W · Line 91

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Forward Air Controller (1441A)
Unit (as recorded)
20 TASS
Born
March 16, 1946
Home of record
Las Animas, Colorado (Bent County)

Casualty

Date of loss
December 24, 1971
Country
Cambodia
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

Three names on the Wall carry the date December 24, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “20 TASS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

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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Also on Panel 2W, Line 91

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From Las Animas

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.