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Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. |
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SYNOPSIS: LTJG Joseph P. Dunn joined the Navy in 1964. He received orders for Vietnam in July 1967, where he was assigned to Attack Squadron 25 onboard the USS CORAL SEA. On February 14, 1968, Dunn launched in his A1H Skyraider attack aircraft from Cubi Point Naval Air Station, Republic of the Philippines, to relieve another aircraft from his squadron. The flight was a ferry flight, returning a repaired A1 aircraft to the USS CORAL SEA, accompanied by a second unarmed radar plane. |
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the flight to the aircraft carrier on station in the Gulf of Tonkin, both Dunn and his
wingman drifted north of their proposed flight route and wound up off the east coast of
Hainan Island, China. The Chinese, having tracked the aircraft on radar, sent MiG 17
aircraft to turn the intruders away. Fire from one of them struck Dunn's aircraft. |
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