Cornwell, Leroy Jason III
Air Force Captain

Leroy Jason III Cornwell, age 27, from Tucson, Arizona, Pima county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, September 10, 1971
Death details: On March 7, 1996, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Leroy Jason Cornwell, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Cornwell joined the U.S. Air Force from Arizona and was a member of the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 10, 1971, he was the co-pilot of an F-4 Phantom II (66-8712) on a weather observation mission over Laos. Captain Cornwell’s aircraft went down during the mission, and he was killed in the crash. His remains were not located or recovered following the incident. In August 1994, a joint U.S. and Laotian search team recovered remains from the Phantom’s crash site that were later identified as those of Capt Cornwell.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency