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Name: Eric Parker Brice
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: 06 April 1943
Home City of Record: ROCKY MOUNT NC
Date of Loss: 04 June 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 184459 North 1061259 East
Status (in 1973): Killed in Action/Body not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4J #155554
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1201
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following:
raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.
REMARKS:
CACCF CRASH/PILOT/ 4 YRS USN
No further information available at this time.
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On 04 June 1968 a flight of Phantoms from Fighter Squadron 33 were
tasked against a road intersection about 15 miles south of Vinh.
Immediately after bomb release, F-4J BuNo 155554, crewed by
LT Eric P. Brice and LTjg William A. Simmons, was hit by 37mm
antiaircraft fire. Finding himself with only partial hydraulics
and throttles jammed in full military power, Brice headed for open water.
When about 25 miles off-shore the aircraft caught fire and Brice
directed ejection. Simmons ejected without difficulty from the
back seat, but the pilot's canopy failed to leave the aircraft.
Brice's wingmen watched helplessly as Brice attempted to push the
canopy free so that he too could eject - and they watched as the
burning aircraft, with Eric Brice still aboard, went into the sea.
His body was not recovered.
Sources:
The POW
Network, Hobson's "Vietnam Air Losses",
The
Virtual Wall,
and the
US DoD POW/MIA Office.