02 Mar 2005 Dear Frank, Your heart lives on. Fly high and rest well. Semper Fi and God Bless, Arlene and Family Arlene Marine Valdosta, Georgia georgianana10@yahoo.com

 

25 Sep 2005 I purchased an MIA bracelet for Major Francis E. Visconti a few years ago and I wear it every day. I purchased it to honor him and to help with the financial effort to search for missing men and women who have served our great country and paid the ultimate price. I hope that by wearing Major Visconti's bracelet I remind those around me that "We will never forget". God bless the missing and their families. Jack Marino US Navy 1967 John A. Marino 64 Holly Avenue, Lynn, Ma. 01904 papa49@comcast.net

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall The Marine Air Group 36 (MAG-36) Command Chronology for November 1965 contains the following entry: "22 November 1965 - An emergency lift was made by HMM-362 to relieve the ARVN outpost at THACH TRU, south of Quang Ngai. The mission was successfully completed in very poor weather conditions which apparently caused the loss of YL-36, last seen in IFR conditions in a climbing turn at night over the sea, northeast of Quang Ngai. To date no sign of the aircraft or crew has been found, and it is assumed that it crashed at sea with the loss of all hands: 1stLt F VISCONTI, 1stLt R A MILLER, Cpl V J PIRKER and Cpl J E DOUGLAS." "YL-36" was the side number for UH-34D Bureau Number 147180. All four crewmen were carried as Missing in Action, and promoted while in that status, until the Secretary of the Navy approved Presumptive Findings of Death for them on the dates indicated below: Major Francis E. Visconti, Syracuse, NY, pilot (10/15/1973) Major Richard A. Miller, New York, NY, copilot (01/21/1975) GySgt Victor J. Pirker, Trout Creek, MT, gunner (01/31/1974) SSgt Thomas E. Douglas, Northwest Warren, OH, crew chief (12/21/1977) Further information is available on the USMC Combat Helicopter Association site

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