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Bois Claire, Ronald Alan, Sr., AD2.
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Contact Info
Home Town Tucson
Last Address Tucson, Arizona
MIA Date Aug 25, 1967
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Memorial Coordinates 25E 041
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Commander Edward J. Jacobs, LTJG James J. Zavocky, and ADJ2 Ronald A. BoisClaire were conducting airborne photo reconnaissance off the coast of North Vietnam in an RA-3B aircraft. Radio and radar contact with the aircraft was lost, and SAR efforts failed to uncover any trace of the aircraft or its crew.
All three men were declared "Missing in Action." Eventually, that was changed to "Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered." The fact of the matter is that no one knows what became of these three men.
The three men were flying in RA-3B BuNo 144835 assigned to Heavy Photographic Squadron 61 (VAP-61) and probably launched from Danang Air Base in South Vietnam. They were conducting a night photo recon mission with infrared cameras in North Vietnam. The aircraft simply disappeared - no signs of wreckage or the crew were ever found.
Heavy Photographic Squadron 62 (VAP-62) was based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, as part of the Atlantic Fleet. VAP-62 never deployed as a full squadron to Vietnam during the war, but did provide aircraft and aircrew augmentation to the Pacific Fleet's VAP-61.
