Carl Joseph Ellerd
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic Second Class, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 97
Entered the Service From: Odessa, Texas
Date of Birth: November 27, 1939
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic, Second Class Ellerd was a member of Attack Squadron 97, 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.
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic Second Class, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 97
Entered the Service From: Odessa, Texas
Date of Birth: November 27, 1939
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic, Second Class Ellerd was a member of Attack Squadron 97, 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.
Carl Joseph Ellerd
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic Second Class, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 97
Entered the Service From: Odessa, Texas
Date of Birth: November 27, 1939
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic, Second Class Ellerd was a member of Attack Squadron 97, 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.
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic Second Class, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 97
Entered the Service From: Odessa, Texas
Date of Birth: November 27, 1939
Date of Death: October 02, 1969
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Aviation Hydraulics Mechanic, Second Class Ellerd was a member of Attack Squadron 97, 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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