John Robert Bush

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromFt. Walton Beach Florida
Date of DeathJuly 24 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Bush was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand. On July 24, 1968, he was the navigator of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission over the Gulf of Tonkin about 20 miles east of Ba Don, North Vietnam when his aircraft crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.