Lewis Metcalfe WALLING, Jr.

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Together We Served.com: Last Known Activity - 2nd Lt. Walling was aboard an SC-47 on a leaflet-dropping mission that crashed in Vic Bao Mountains while under hostile fire. He was one of nine crew and Army advisors on board.

The following anonymous narrative was posted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website on Sunday, November 21, 1999:

"On 11 February 1962 Lewis Walling boarded a USAF C-47 aircraft. The mission was to drop leaflets with a New Year's message from President Kennedy over the high plateau area of central Vietnam. Lewis, who had a hand in translating the messages and eager to travel to the highlands, volunteered to accompany the flight. As the aircraft swept low near the village of Blao, a concealed enemy force opened fire. The plane was struck by small arms fire and crashed in the mountains southwest of the village. A joint US/Vietnamese rescue team was sent to the crash site. The bodies of Lewis Walling, six U.S. Air Force personnel and two Vietnamese were located at the site of the C-47 crash."

Those men included the following:
2 unknown South Vietnamese Air Force personnel
U.S. Army Personnel:
2nd Lt. Lewis Walling
Sp4 Gen Merrihew
6 USAF Personnel:
Capt. Edward Kissam
Capt. Joseph Fahey
1st Lt. Jack Le Tourneau
1st Lt Stanley Hartson
TSgt Floyd Frazier
A1C Robert Westfall
Source: heep://www.vvmf.org/thewall