Name: William Marshall Price

Rank/Branch: O2/US Marine Corps

Unit: VMA 533, MAG 15, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing

Date of Birth: 24 August 1945

Home City of Record: Kewanee IL

Date of Loss: 12 October 1972

Country of Loss: North Vietnam

Loss Coordinates: 172800N 1062500E (XE600450)

Status (in 1973): Missing In Action

Category: 4

Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A

Refno: 1937

Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.

Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families,

published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

Other Personnel in Incident: John R. Peacock (missing)

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: On October 12, 1972, Capt. John R. Peacock, pilot, and 1Lt.

William M. Price, co-pilot, were assigned a combat mission over North

Vietnam. When the aircraft failed to return to base as scheduled, the two

were listed Missing in Action. Their last known location was about 15 miles

west of Dong Hoi in Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam.

The Grumman A6 Intruder is a two-man all weather, low-altitude,

carrier-based attack plane, with versions adapted as aerial tanker and

electronic warfare platform. The A6A primarily flew close-air-support,

all-weather and night attacks on enemy troop concentrations, and night

interdiction missions. Its advanced navigation and attack system, known as

DIANE (Digital Integrated Attack navigation Equipment) allowed small

precision targets, such as bridges, barracks and fuel depots to be located

and attacked in all weather conditions, day or night. The planes were

credited with some of the most difficult single-plane strikes in the war,

including the destruction of the Hai Duong bridge between Hanoi and Haiphong

by a single A6. Their missions were tough, but their crews among the most

talented and most courageous to serve the United States.

Peacock and Price are two of the nearly 3000 Americans who remained

unaccounted for at the end of the Vietnam War. Since that time, the numbers

have dwindled to something over 2300 as remains have been returned and cases

resolved in other ways.

Since the end of the war, the U.S. Government has reviewed "several million

documents" and conducted "over 250,000" interviews related to Americans

missing in Southeast Asia. Many authorities who have had access to this

classified information are convinced that hundreds of these "unaccounted

for" Americans are still alive and in captivity.

"Unaccounted for" is a term that should apply to numbers, not men. We, as a

nation, owe these men our best effort to find them and bring them home.

Until the fates of brave men like Peacock and Price are known, there can be

no honorable end to the Vietnam war.