AIR COMMANDO 2 Phillips, Elbert Austin

Special Forces Pilot
By Colonel Richard Hutchings

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Phillips
  • FORENAME
Elbert Austin (Bert)
  • UNIT
56 Special Operations Wing (Det 1)
  • RANK
Technical Sergeant
  • NUMBER
14512267​
  • DATE OF DEATH
28th August 1968
  • AGE
34
  • GRAVESITE
Honolulu Memorial,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Huntsville,Alabama
born 4.5.1934 Red Bank,Tennessee
son of Harold L. and Dollie L. Phillips,Hamilton,Tennessee
husband of Shelby Jean Phillips (1939-2004) (6 children)
16 years service
medical service technician
1454 Air Evacuation Squadron early 1960s
T-28D Trojan (passenger)
crashed Mekong River,Laos (non hostile)
remains not recovered
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 46W Line 52
 

DATE OF DEATH:

28-Aug-1968
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