On 17 June 1966, First Lieutenant Claiborne Parks McCall was serving with the 391st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th Tactical Air Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force, in South Vietnam.

On that day 1LT McCall died in the crash of a fixed wing aircraft in which he was a passenger. The crash occurred offshore South Vietnam, in Military Region 2, and was due to non-hostile action.

He graduated at Baylor School in Chattanooga, TN in 1958 and at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee with the class of 1963.

  • Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Date of birth:
  • 7 June 1940
  • Date of death: 17 June 1966
  • County: Hamilton
  • Hometown: Chattanooga
  • Service Branch: Air Force
  • Division/Assignment: 391st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th Tactical Air Fighter Wing
  • Conflict: Vietnam
  • Awards: Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters
  • Burial/Memorial Location: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia
  • Location In Memorial: Pillar XXIII, Top Panel
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