Donald Chester Dean

Vietnam War
UnitCarrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113
RankHospital Corpsman Second Class U.S. Navy
Entered Service FromSt. Louis Missouri
Date of DeathOctober 2 1969
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Hospital Corpsman Second Class Dean was a member of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64). On October 2, 1969, he was a passenger in a Grumman Greyhound Transport Aircraft (C-2A) enroute from Cubi Point Naval Station to the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Contact was lost when the aircraft was about 10 miles from the carrier. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.