185th TFG F-100 Pilots April 1968
April 29, 1968 Sioux City, Iowa LT Warren Brown, front row 2nd from the right. On 14 July 1968, 1st Lt Warren K. Brown was on an air strike mission in the AShau Valley. (Vietnam) As he made his pass over the target area, his aircraft was hit by ground fire. He headed in an easterly direction and bailed out shortly afterwards as his aircraft was on fire. During the ejection, there was a chute entanglement and the pilot was found deceased in his chute harness by a helicopter crew. The above paragraph is how the death of Sioux City native Lieutenant Warren Brown is recorded in the history books. Brown became the only pilot of the Sioux City based 185th Air National Guard to be killed in Vietnam. (The 185th Tactical Fighter Group was mobilized on January 26, 1968 and returned to Sioux City on the 14th of May 1969.)
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