AIR COMMANDO 2 Boston, Leo Sydney

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Boston
  • FORENAME
Leo Sydney
  • UNIT
602 Fighter Squadron (14 Air Commando Wing)
  • RANK
Major
  • NUMBER
523424133
  • DATE OF DEATH
29th April 1966
  • AGE
30
  • GRAVESITE
U.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery,Colorado Springs,El Paso County,Colorado
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Canon City,Colorado
born 12.5.1935 Goodwell,Oklahoma
son of John Sidney and Edythe Marie (nee Hall) Boston
husband of Dorothy Deanna (nee Curtis) Boston (married 3.11.1957) (died 1988) (3 children)
family moved to Canon City,Colorado 1948
graduated Canon City High School 1953
attended Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College,Goodwell,Oklahoma
commissioned 2Lt USAF
graduated Oklahoma State University
pilot
A-1E Skyraider
award Air Medal
MIA Son La Province,North Vietnam (in A-1E)
body not recovered
declared dead 27.4.1978 as Colonel
remains repatriated 2000 (kneecap fragment)
identified 24.5.2011
interred 15.7.2011
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 07E Line 7
original memorial headstone,USAF Academy Cemetery Plot 06 A 027
middle name Sidney on headstone
 

DATE OF DEATH:

29-Apr-1966
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