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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 5814" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Boston </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leo Sydney </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>602 Fighter Squadron (14 Air Commando Wing) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>523424133 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>29th April 1966 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>U.S. Air Force Academy Cemetery,Colorado Springs,El Paso County,Colorado </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Canon City,Colorado</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 12.5.1935 Goodwell,Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of John Sidney and Edythe Marie (nee Hall) Boston</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Dorothy Deanna (nee Curtis) Boston (married 3.11.1957) (died 1988) (3 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>family moved to Canon City,Colorado 1948</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Canon City High School 1953</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College,Goodwell,Oklahoma</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned 2Lt USAF</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Oklahoma State University</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>pilot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A-1E Skyraider</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award Air Medal</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>MIA Son La Province,North Vietnam (in A-1E)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>body not recovered</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>declared dead 27.4.1978 as Colonel</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>remains repatriated 2000 (kneecap fragment)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>identified 24.5.2011</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>interred 15.7.2011</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 07E Line 7</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>original memorial headstone,USAF Academy Cemetery Plot 06 A 027</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>middle name Sidney on headstone</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-boston.12798/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12798-7787edd31a6376be013a05a62f96697d.jpg?1591398705" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-boston.12797/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12797-a82d5519f504e87638b5fa09bb8f6df3.jpg?1591398705" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-boston-memorial-stone.12799/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12799-2b061113a418db12a5b1d771ff3f42bc.jpg?1591398705" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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