Huard, James Linton
Air Force Captain

James Linton Huard from Dearborn, Michigan, Wayne county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: July 12, 1972
Death details: On January 17, 1997, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain James Linton Huard, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain Huard joined the U.S. Air Force from Michigan and was a member of the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. On July 12, 1972, he piloted an F-4E Phantom II (serial number 69-0302) on a combat mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. Captain Huard’s aircraft was shot down over Quang Binh Province, and he was killed in the crash. Search and rescue teams were launched when the Phantom failed to return, but they could not locate the aircraft’s crash site and Capt Huard’s remains were not recovered at the time. In December 1988, the Vietnamese government returned Capt Huard’s remains to U.S. custody; however, it was not until several years later that forensic analysis confirmed the identification.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency