BRIEFING OF (DELETED) ON STATUS OF COL. PATRICK M FALLON, USAF MIA/LAOS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00022828
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 27, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-01147
• Publication Date: February 10, 1972

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT : Briefing of on Status of
Col. P a t riT M. a ion, VAralag
REFERENCE:
A. JANAF Vientiane 0436, 0190830 Jan 1972
B. MACV/JPRC 6339, 2307022 Jan 1972
1. The PACAF summary sheet on Colonel Fallon, classified
Secret, contained the following pertinent information on
Colonel Fallon:
a. Departed Nakhon Phanom RTAFB 411030 Jul 69.
b. Missing: 4/1223 Jul 69.
c. Pilot of A-1H, no other crew members,
tail no. 52/137512.
d. Intended target: Troops in contact.
(Location not shown.)
e. Loss location: not shown.
f. Last contact: on the ground communicating by
radio; surrounded by enemy forces; no SAR effort.
Two eye witnesses to chute.
2. The DIA PMSEA report for 30 September 1971 contained
the following pertinent information on Colonel Fallon:
a. Missing: 4 July 1969.
b, Type aircraft; A-1H.
o. Loss coordinates: 191700N/1030600E, Laos,
3. There was no other pertinent information in JOIC files.
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4. The referent JANAF cable, subject of a query to
contained the following inform-in-FE:
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a. A recent rallier claimed he visited a crash
site in early June 1969. There were charred re-
mains of "one pilot" and debris of an F-4H.
Source saw one white parachute in rice fields
near Phou Teung, and was told it belonged to
'The pilot" who had been rescued by one of two
helicopters.
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b. Crash site: UG 107416, Phou Teung.
c, JPRC's P1/MIA biographic data (machine
printout JP01R) listed Fallon, Patrick Martin,
Col., USAF, PW/M1A NR 0734, pilot of F-4B lost
4 July 1969 vicinity UG 013328.
d, JANAF attaches believed source was reporting
on the Fallon case.
5. The referent MACV/JPRC cable commented that the above
conclusion (para 4.4:1) was in error, that Colonel Fallon's
plane was an A-1H, and that the incident mentioned by source
was probably the downing of Capt. Wayne E. Pearson on
22 February 1969 at UG 179384. Captain Pearson was piloting
an F-40 and his other crewman was rescued.
6.
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