James Larry Phipps

Vietnam War
Unit7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment
RankChief Warrant Officer Third Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromMatoon Illinois
Date of DeathJanuary 9 1968
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment

Notes
Chief Warrant Officer, Third Class Phipps was a member of Troop C, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. On January 9, 1968, he was the aircraft commander of a Bell Huey Utility Helicopter (UH-1C) on a gunship-cover mission about 20 miles west of Tam Ky, Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, when the aircraft was hit by ground fire, crashed and burned. CWO3C Phipps remains have been recovered and identified in 2014. His name is permanently inscribed on the Vietnam Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.