John Quincy Adam, age 20, from Bethel, Kansas, Wyandotte county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, May 22, 1968
Death details: On March 13, 2009, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Master Sergeant John Quincy Adam, missing from the Vietnam War. Chief Master Sergeant Adam joined the U.S. Air Force from Kansas and was a member of the 41st Tactical Airlift Squadron. On May 22, 1968, he was the flare handler aboard a C-130 Hercules with a crew of nine on a nighttime flare mission over northern Salavan Province, Laos. The Hercules crashed during its flight, killing all nine of the crew. Immediate search efforts could not be conducted due to heavy anti-aircraft fire in the area. Between 1989 and 2008, Laotian, Vietnamese, and American search teams conducted joint investigations in the Quang Tri Province of Vietnam, recovering aircraft wreckage and human remains for further analysis. In 2009, modern forensic techniques allowed for the identification of CMSgt Adam’s remains from among those recovered from Vietnam.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com