Zavocky, James John
Navy Lieutenant (junior grade)

James John Zavocky from Parma, Ohio, Cuyahoga county. Their last known residence was in Parma.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, August 25, 1967
Death details:  On August 25, 1967, an RA-3B Skywarrior (bureau number 144835, call sign “Quizshow 09”) with three crew members carried out a night reconnaissance mission over the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. As the aircraft approached the coastline, radar contact was lost, and could not be reestablished. A search for “Quizshow 09” discovered no sign of it or its crew. All three members of the crew remain unaccounted for.

Lieutenant Junior Grade James John Zavocky, who joined the U.S. Navy from Ohio, was a member of Heavy Photographic Squadron 61. He was the photographer and navigator aboard “Quizshow 09” when it went missing, and he was lost with the aircraft. He remains unaccounted for. Today, Lieutenant Junior Grade Zavocky is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency