William George Bennett

Vietnam War
Unit333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromBirmingham Alabama
Date of DeathSeptember 2 1967
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Colonel Bennett was a member of the 333rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. On September 2, 1967, he was the pilot of a Thunderchief Fighter (F-105D) on a mission over Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam, when his aircraft was shot down by hostile fire. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.