Hunt, James D.
Navy Lieutenant commander

James D. Hunt from Montana, Missoula county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Sunday, October 13, 1968

Death details: On October 13, 1968, an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 154141) with two crew members conducted an armed reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. While returning from the mission, the Intruder’s crew radioed that they were being tracked by enemy missile control radar. The electronic warfare officer aboard another aircraft immediately jammed the radar, and the Intruder’s crew reported that they were no longer being tracked. This was the last communication made with the Intruder, which never returned from the mission. Search efforts for the Intruder failed to locate any sign of the aircraft or its crew.

Lieutenant James D. Hunt, who joined the U.S. Navy from Montana, was a member of Attack Squadron 52. He was the copilot aboard the Intruder when it went missing, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains were never recovered, and he is still unaccounted for. After the incident, the Navy promoted LT Hunt to the rank of Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). Today, Lieutenant Commander Hunt is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency