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Major Guillermin, Louis Fulda

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Name:

Louis Fulda Guillermin

Branch / Rank:
Air Force / Major ( O4)
Unit:
609th Air Combat Squadron
Date of Birth:

January 6, 1943

Home of Record:

West Chester, PA

Date of Loss:

April 30, 1968

Country of Loss:

Laos

Loss Coordinates:

165605N 1055925E

Status (in 1973):

Missing In Action

Category:

2

Duty:

A26A

Other personnel in incident:

Robert E. Pietsch (missing)

Remarks:

Source:  Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 September 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

 

Maj. Luis Guillermin and Lt. Colonel Robert Pietsch were flying an A26A aircraft over Laos when their plane was downed in Savannakhet Province, Laos. Their last known location was about 10 miles east of the city of Ban Muong Sen.

The A26A was re-designated as the B-26 following World War II and then given its original classification as an attack plane. After some redesigning for counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was re-christened as the A-26A. The aircraft could remain on station for a long time, patiently searching out and attacking an enemy concealed by jungle in night or bad weather.

The fates of Guillermin and Pietsch are unknown. There are among nearly 600 Americans who disappeared in America’s "secret war" in Laos who never returned. There is ample reason to believe that the Vietnamese and/or the Communist Lao know what happened to Guillermin and Pietsch on April 30, 1968.

There have been over 5000 reports given to the U.S. Government relating to Americans held captive in Southeast Asia. The U.S. has, thus far, been unable to find the formula to bring them home. One of them could be Louis Guillermin.

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