On January 10, 1973, a two man flight crew from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island was shot down over the jungles of north Vietnam. It took three decades to recover their remains. Tuesday, the airmen were remembered as the base's last two sailors killed in action from that war. Pointing to a map on the wall at Oak Harbor's Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum, Rod Maskew remembered the location where the plane went down the night Attack Squadron (VA) 115 lost two good men. He heard the radio calls searching in vain for his two fallen brothers. "After it really sinks in that they're not answering, the heart starts sinking and you can feel it," he said. Pilot Lt. Michael McCormick and bombardier Lt.j.g. Robert Clark were shot down 50 years ago, Tuesday. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/whidbey-island-airmen-honored-50-years-after-vietnam-deaths/281-c8268840-daa9-4fa3-9385-c07e56533573