Ralph Wetterhahn

Colonel Ralph Wetterhahn (Ret.) is a trained aircraft crash investigator and the author of The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War, about three marines captured and killed by the Khmer Rouge during the final combat action of the Vietnam War and a novel about the search for lost airmen, Shadowmakers. His articles are widely read in Air & Space/Smithsonian, Popular Science, VFW, and Military Officer Magazine. During his military career he flew 180 combat missions for...See more

Colonel Ralph Wetterhahn (Ret.) is a trained aircraft crash investigator and the author of The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War, about three marines captured and killed by the Khmer Rouge during the final combat action of the Vietnam War and a novel about the search for lost airmen, Shadowmakers. His articles are widely read in Air & Space/Smithsonian, Popular Science, VFW, and Military Officer Magazine. During his military career he flew 180 combat missions for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Wetterhahn, who was featured in the 2003 Nova documentary, "The Last Flight of Bomber 31," lives in Long Beach, California. See less