Boronski, John Arthur Army sergeant first class

John Arthur Boronski, age 23, from Ware, Massachusetts, Hampshire county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, March 24, 1970
Death details: On February 15, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class John Arthur Boronski, missing from the Vietnam War.

Sergeant First Class Boronski joined the U.S. Army from Massachusetts and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On March 24, 1970, he was a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia, that was extracted from the mission area by a UH-1H Iroquois. After picking up the patrol, the Iroquois suffered an explosion that caused it to crash. Sergeant First Class Boronski was killed in the incident. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented ground investigations of the UH-1H’s crash site at the time. In April 1995, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team recovered remains associated with the loss of SFC Boronski’s helicopter. In 2001, U.S. analysts identified some of the recovered remains as those of SFC Boronski.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency