TSgt. Palmer D Arrowood, U.S. Air Force Language Specialist
born 15 Feb 1925 Pike County, Kentucky
17 December 1944 - WWII USAAF with the 461st Bombardment Group - Listed as MIA and later found to be POW after being shot down.
MACR #10650
10 September 1956
RB-50G Superfortress #47-133 departed Yokota Air Base, Japan, on September 10, 1956, on a
secretive HAYSTACK communications intel reconnaissance mission to the vicinity of North Korea. It was this aircraft's inaugural reconnaissance flight with Russian and Korean linguistic specialists aboard. After the plane failed to respond to radio calls, a search was started. Numerous aircraft and ships searched the Sea of Japan, but was called off after eight days, due in part to rough seas from typhoon Emma in the vicinity. No evidence of the plane or the sixteen crew members aboard was ever located. The flight had gone missing. The Air Force declared that the aircraft was lost on a weather reconnaissance flight in the typhoon, but documents released in 1992 showed that it was in fact on a secret mission. Rumor has persisted for years that this air crew were downed by interceptor fighter aircraft of either the Russian or North Korean air forces, but no evidence to that has been learned.
Sixteen crew members aboard, seven from the 6924th Security Squadron and 9 flight members
from the 6091st Reconnaissance Squadron:
Maj. Lorin C Disbrow
Capt. Rodger A Fees
Capt. William J McLaughlin
Capt. Pat P Taylor
1st Lt. Peter J Rahaniotis
2nd Lt. Richard T Kobayashi
TSgt. Palmer D Arrowood
TSgt. Bobby R Davis
SSgt. Raymond D Johnson
SSgt. Paul W Swinehart
SSgt. Theodorus J Trias
A1C John E Beisty
A1C William H Ellis
A1C Wayne J Fair
A1C Harry S Maxwell
A1C Leo J Sloan
born 15 Feb 1925 Pike County, Kentucky
17 December 1944 - WWII USAAF with the 461st Bombardment Group - Listed as MIA and later found to be POW after being shot down.
MACR #10650
10 September 1956
RB-50G Superfortress #47-133 departed Yokota Air Base, Japan, on September 10, 1956, on a
secretive HAYSTACK communications intel reconnaissance mission to the vicinity of North Korea. It was this aircraft's inaugural reconnaissance flight with Russian and Korean linguistic specialists aboard. After the plane failed to respond to radio calls, a search was started. Numerous aircraft and ships searched the Sea of Japan, but was called off after eight days, due in part to rough seas from typhoon Emma in the vicinity. No evidence of the plane or the sixteen crew members aboard was ever located. The flight had gone missing. The Air Force declared that the aircraft was lost on a weather reconnaissance flight in the typhoon, but documents released in 1992 showed that it was in fact on a secret mission. Rumor has persisted for years that this air crew were downed by interceptor fighter aircraft of either the Russian or North Korean air forces, but no evidence to that has been learned.
Sixteen crew members aboard, seven from the 6924th Security Squadron and 9 flight members
from the 6091st Reconnaissance Squadron:
Maj. Lorin C Disbrow
Capt. Rodger A Fees
Capt. William J McLaughlin
Capt. Pat P Taylor
1st Lt. Peter J Rahaniotis
2nd Lt. Richard T Kobayashi
TSgt. Palmer D Arrowood
TSgt. Bobby R Davis
SSgt. Raymond D Johnson
SSgt. Paul W Swinehart
SSgt. Theodorus J Trias
A1C John E Beisty
A1C William H Ellis
A1C Wayne J Fair
A1C Harry S Maxwell
A1C Leo J Sloan