Captain, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 192
Entered the Service From: Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth: April 27, 1931
Date of Death: April 26, 1967
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Captain Estocin was a member of Attack Squadron 192, Carrier Air Wing 19 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14).
On April 26, 1967, he was the pilot of a Douglas Attack Aircraft Skyhawk (A-4E) to neutralize the surface to air missiles near fuel facilities in Haiphong, North Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by a surface to air missile and crashed amid the islands hear Haiphong.
His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
This memorial is a cenotaph. Another cenotaph in his memory is located at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
Captain, U.S. Navy
Attack Squadron 192
Entered the Service From: Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth: April 27, 1931
Date of Death: April 26, 1967
Wars or Conflicts: Vietnam War
Memorialized: Courts of the Missing: Court B
Honolulu Memorial
Captain Estocin was a member of Attack Squadron 192, Carrier Air Wing 19 aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14).
On April 26, 1967, he was the pilot of a Douglas Attack Aircraft Skyhawk (A-4E) to neutralize the surface to air missiles near fuel facilities in Haiphong, North Vietnam when his aircraft was hit by a surface to air missile and crashed amid the islands hear Haiphong.
His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
This memorial is a cenotaph. Another cenotaph in his memory is located at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.