Galileo Fred Bossio

Vietnam War
Unit388th Combat Support Group
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromDeer Park Washington
Date of DeathJuly 29 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Colonel Bossio was a member of the 388th Combat Support Group, Udorn Air Base, Thailand. On July 29, 1966, he was a crew member of a Douglas Skytrain Reconnaissance Transport (RC-47D) on an operational mission 15 miles south of Sam Neua, North Vietnam, when it was attacked by enemy fighters and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.