Jon Edward Swanson

Vietnam War
Unit9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
RankCaptain U.S. Army
Entered Service FromDenver Colorado
Date of DeathFebruary 26 1971
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
Medal of Honor (Army)
Congressional Medal of Honor



Notes
Captain Swanson was a member of Troop B, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On February 26, 1971, he was the pilot of a Hughes Loach Observation Helicopter (OH-6A) providing close air support to an ambushed South Vietnamese Army convoy in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. While making a low pass the aircraft came under fire of two enemy machine guns and crashed. CAPT Swanson's remains were recovered on September 21, 1995 and identified on February 7, 2002. His name is permanently inscribed on the Vietnam Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. Captain Swanson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2002.
rosetta medal
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