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HM2 Donald Chester Dean
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HM2 Donald Chester Dean Veteran

Birth
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
Death
2 Oct 1969 (aged 27)
Vietnam
Monument
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA GPS-Latitude: 21.3135948, Longitude: -157.8471222
Plot
Courts of the Missing
Memorial ID
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Donald Chester Dean
Hospital Corpsman Second Class, U.S. Navy
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113
Entered the Service From: St. Louis, Missouri
Date of Birth: January 07, 1942
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Dean was a member of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64). On October 2, 1969, he was a passenger in a Grumman Greyhound Transport Aircraft (C-2A) enroute from Cubi Point Naval Station to the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Contact was lost when the aircraft was about 10 miles from the carrier. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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Helicopter search and rescue efforts were immediately initiated from the ship. The helicopter began sighting an oil slick and debris. A few pieces of aircraft were recovered, and analysis of this debris indicated that the
aircraft was in a relatively high speed nose down, right wing down impact with the water or had a possible right wing failure before impact. There was no sign of survivors, nor were any bodies recovered.
Donald Chester Dean
Hospital Corpsman Second Class, U.S. Navy
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113
Entered the Service From: St. Louis, Missouri
Date of Birth: January 07, 1942
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Hospital Corpsman Second Class Dean was a member of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64). On October 2, 1969, he was a passenger in a Grumman Greyhound Transport Aircraft (C-2A) enroute from Cubi Point Naval Station to the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Contact was lost when the aircraft was about 10 miles from the carrier. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial
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Helicopter search and rescue efforts were immediately initiated from the ship. The helicopter began sighting an oil slick and debris. A few pieces of aircraft were recovered, and analysis of this debris indicated that the
aircraft was in a relatively high speed nose down, right wing down impact with the water or had a possible right wing failure before impact. There was no sign of survivors, nor were any bodies recovered.

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