Maxim Charles Parker

Vietnam War
UnitMarine Attack Fighter Squadron 314
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service FromRolling Hills California
Date of DeathMarch 18 1967
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Second Lieutenant Parker was a member of the Marine Attack Fighter Squadron 314, Marine Attack Group 13, 1st Marine Air Wing. On March 18, 1967, he was the radar intercept officer of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4B) on a close air support mission in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. Contact with the aircraft was lost. His remains were recovered on June 9, 1993 and identified on May 9, 2001. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.