Rank/Branch: O2/United States Air Force
Home City of Record: Corla Gables FL
Date of Loss: 02 December 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 213000N 1050000E
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C, #7608
Other Personnel in Incident: Ken Cordier, Returnee
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK April 1997 from
one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: 730218 RELEASED BY DRV
Ken Cordier was the pilot of an F4C on his second
tour and 175th mission when he was shot down on 2
December 1966. There f$c was one of three lost that
day. He and his backseater, Michael Lane ejected
at 24,000 feet from the F-4C when it suffered a
direct hit by a SAM. Cordier fell through the
fireball of a second SAM fired at the aircraft.
He received only minor burns. Both were captured
almost immediately after reaching the ground and
after an all night truck ride to Hanoi, they
began seventy-five month tours as a POW.
November 1996
Michael Lane retired from the United States Air
Force as a Colonel. He and his wife Ruth reside
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