Adair, Samuel Young Jr.
Air Force Major
Samuel Young Adair Jr., age 30, from Madison, Georgia, Morgan county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, May 12, 1972
Death details: On June 26, 1975, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Major Samuel Young Adair Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Adair entered the U.S. Air Force from Georgia and served with the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 366th Tactical Fighter Wing. On May 12, 1972, he piloted an F-4E Phantom II (tail number unknown) that took off from Da Nang Air Base on a forward air control mission over Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. The aircraft crashed for unknown reasons and Maj Adair did not survive the incident. Aerial searches failed to locate the crash site, and his body was not recovered at the time. In 1974, a U.S. search team located the crash site and recovered human remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of Maj Adair.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency