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LEO SYDNEY BOSTON
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
May 12, 1935 – April 29, 1966
Service recordLeo Sydney Boston, of Canon City, Colorado, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on April 29, 1966, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 7
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot (1125C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 14 ACWG TDY 602 UDORN AB
- Born
- May 12, 1935
- Home of record
- Canon City, Colorado (Fremont County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 29, 1966
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 7
- TOMMY LEE BOATWRIGHTPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD BROWNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 29, 1966
- DONALD WILLIAM BRUCH JRFirst Lieutenant · April 29, 1966
From Canon City
- LEON R SCRIBERSpecialist Four · May 19, 1966
- RONALD LYLE PACKARDCaptain · July 31, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.