Boyle, Clarence Edward Jr.
Air Force 1st lieutenant

Clarence Edward Jr. Boyle from Santa Monica, California, Los Angeles county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, July 1, 1951
Death details: 

Late in the evening on June 30, 1951, a B-26 Invader (tail number 44-34703 /nicknamed Yer Ole’ Dad) departed Pusan East Air Base with a crew of three aviators.  The briefed mission was a night interdiction (road reconnaissance) operation along an enemy major supply route known as Purple One. The flight to North Korea was uneventful. The pilot checked in just before midnight as the aircraft crossed the bomb line, but made no further contact. The aircraft failed to return to base and was reported missing on July 1. Attempts to locate the missing aircraft or crew were unsuccessful. The aircrew remains unaccounted-for.

First Lieutenant Clarence Edward Boyle Jr. entered the U.S. Air Force from California and was assigned to the 728th Bombardment Squadron, 452nd Bombardment Wing. He was the pilot of “Yer Ole’ Dad” when it went missing. No returning POWs mentioned contact with 1st Lt Boyle, nor did he appear at any known holding point, interrogation center, hospital, or permanent POW camp.  He remains unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Boyle is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency