James Ervin Booth

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromRoseville California
Date of DeathJune 23 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Major Booth was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On June 23, 1968, he was the navigator of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a night mission to bomb targets in the mountains in Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam near the Laotian border. As the aircraft made its bombing run it crashed and exploded on the side on a mountain. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.