John Charles Hosken, age 22, from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Cuyahoga county. Their last known residence was in Chagrin Falls.
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 Chief Warrant Officer John Charles Hosken, missing from the Vietnam War.
Chief Warrant Officer Hosken joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of the 170th Aviation Company. On March 24, 1970, he was a gunner aboard a UH-1H Iroquois on a mission to extract a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The aircraft picked up the recon team and was beginning its ascent when it suffered an explosion that caused it to crash. Chief Warrant Officer 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 U.S. search team recovered remains associated with the loss of this helicopter. In 2001, U.S. analysts identified some of the recovered remains as those of CWO Hosken.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency