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Flood, Francis Arthur, Jr., LTJG.
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Lt.jg. Flood was lost along with his crew while on an ECM reconnaissance mission 32 miles off Wenchai, China. The aircraft, a P-4M-1Q "Mercator" (Bu 124362) flying out of Iwakuni, Japan, was shot down by a Chinese MiG-17F. The crew of 16 were all lost.
Four bodies were returned by the Chinese. There is some evidence that two of the crew survived (see links by K. Shaver with its detailed account).
Crew lost:
Ltjg. James B. Deane (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Ltjg. Francis A. Flood, Jr. (Chevy Chase, Maryland)
LT.Cdr. Milton Hutchinson (Cumberland, Rhode Island)
Lcdr. James W. Ponsford (Long Beach, California )(remains recovered by U.S. ships)
AT2 Donald Wayne Barber (Burns, Oregon)
AO2 Warren Edgar Caron (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
AT3 Jack Albert Curtis (Kosse, Texas) (remains recovered by Chinese)
AT1 William Frederick Haskins (Westport, Connecticut) (remains recovered by Chinese)
AO3 William Michael Humbert (Springsboro/Dayton, Ohio)
AD1 Harold E. Lounsbury (Merced, California)
AT1 Albert Perry Martin (Delta, Ohio) (remains recovered by U.S. ships)
AT2 Carl Edwin Messinger (Laredo, Missouri)
AE2 Wallace Winslow Powell (Folkston, Georgia)
AT3 Donald Eugene Sprinkle (South Pasadena, California)
AT2 Leonard Strykowski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
AD3 Lloyd Lewayne Young (Denver, Colorado)
Lt.jg. Flood left a wife, Dorothy Dickie of Canada, then living at the base in Japan. His tour in Japan had begun in 1954.
1954-1956, 132X, Naval Air Station (NAS) Iwakuni, Japan
