Newark New York

James Alfred Marshall, age 24, from Wayne County Newark, New York .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, June 18, 1965
Death details: On June 18, 1965, two B-52F Stratofortresses (tail numbers 57-179 and 57-047) carrying six crew members each collided in mid-air over the South China Sea while en route to Vietnam. Both aircraft were destroyed in the collision. Search and rescue efforts recovered four survivors and the remains of one additional crew member. The remaining seven crew members could not be found. First Lieutenant James Alfred Marshall, who entered the U.S. Air Force from New York, served with the 441st Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) and was a crew member aboard one of these B-52s. He was lost with his aircraft and remains unaccounted for. Today, First Lieutenant Marshall is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1965)