Martin Ronald Scott

Vietnam War
Unit8th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromTulsa Oklahoma
Date of DeathMarch 15 1966
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes

Colonel Scott was a member of the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Ubon Airfield, Thailand. On March 15, 1966, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4C) on an armed reconnaissance over Dien Binh Phu, North Vietnam. On making a bombing run on trucks, his aircraft was shot down and exploded. His remains were not recovered at the time. Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Col. Scott were accounted for in 2017. His name remains permanently 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.