Wayne Gordon Brown II

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromTacoma Washington
Date of DeathJuly 17 1972
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Major Brown was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand. On July 17, 1972, he was the bombardier/navigator of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission 30 miles west-southwest of Hue, South Vietnam, when his aircraft was shot down. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.