Terrance Hastings Griffey
Rank/Branch of service:02/United States Air Force
Unit: Unknown
DOB: 11/05/1940
Home City on record: Ft.Dodge IA
Date of loss: May 26 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates:135343N 1999442E (CR104367)
Status (in 1973): Killed/ body not recovered.
Category:2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:F4C
Refno:0346
Other Personal in Incident: Gary A Glandon (missing)
1LT Terrence H Griffey was the pilot and 1LT Gary A Glandon was his weapons system officer on an FC4 Phantom sent on a bombimg mission on May 26 1966. The aircraft was 2 in a flight 0f 3. After making the bombing run over the target,Griffey's aircraft was observed to burst into flames and explode. The aircraft burned in the air, impacted on the ground and disintegrated into small pieces.The location of the crash was on the coast of South Vietnam about 10 miles N.E. of the city of Qui Nhon in the Binh Dinh Province. Both men were thought to be killed and to have gone down with the aircraft.
These two young officers were amoung the nearly 3000 Americans who were missing, prisoner, or otherwise unaccounted for at the end of the Vietnam War.
Griffey, 25, who excelled in Football at the United States Air Force Academy, was just starting an Air Force career. Glandon a native Tennessean, had just turned 26. They are amoung the 58,000 men who died in Vietnam--men who became statistics from the sheer enormity of numbers.
Since American involvment in Vietnam ended in 1975, nearly 10,000 reports relating Americans missing, prisoners , or otherwise unaccounted for in Indonchina have been recieved by the US government. Many officals examined this largely classified information, have RELUCTENTLY CONCLUDED that many Americans are still alive today, held captive by our long ago enemy.
Griffey and Glandon apparently did not survive the crash of their aircraft to be captured, and cannot be amoung those thought to still be alive today.
What is certain that as long as one American is alive and being held captive, we OWE them our best efforts to bring him back!
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