File:Funeral Procession, LT Jack Rittichier by Margaret Graham Kranking DVIDS1083176.jpg
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English: LT Jack Rittichier, Coast Guard aviator killed in action in Vietnam in 1968, is buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in October, 2003. He joined the United States Coast Guard on 26 September 1963, and served as a search and rescue pilot until his death on the 9th of June 1968. The military never gave up on trying to locate the crash site and its crew; however, it was not until 09 November 2002 that the crash site of the Jolly Green 23 was finally located. On 17 January 2003, excavation began on the site, and on 14 February 2003, the remains of the four crew members were repatriated. Positive identification was made in August of 2003, and Jack was buried with full military honors on 06 October 2003 in a portion of Arlington National Cemetery known as Coast Guard Hill. |
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| Source | https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1083176 |
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| Location | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, VA, US |
| Posted | 11 December 2013, 20:00 |
| DVIDS ID | 1083176 |
| Archive link | archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
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This image or file is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105, USCG main privacy policy and specific privacy policy for its imagery server).
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