Mary therese klinker biography
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Klinker, Mary Therese, Capt
US Air Force Capt Mary Therese Klinker, Vietnam Veteran, Native of Lafayette, Indiana.
US Air Force Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a casualty of the Vietnam War.
As a member of the Air Force Reserve, CPT Klinker served our country until April 4th, 1975 in Binh Hoa, South Vietnam. She was 27 years old and was not married. Mary died when her plane crashed. Her body was recovered. Mary was born on October 3rd, 1947 in Lafayette, Indiana.
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CPT Klinker is on panel 01W, line 122 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
US Air Force Capt Klinker was a flight nurse with the 10th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron temporarily assigned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines, was on the C-5A Galaxy which crahsed on April 4 outside Saigon while evacuating Vietnamese orphans.
This is known as the Operation Babylift crash. From Lafayette, Indiana, she was 27. She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism an