Wayne Charles Irsch

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromTulsa Oklahoma
Date of DeathJanuary 9 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Captain Irsch was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand. On January 9, 1968, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission 40 miles south-southeast of Ban Karai Pass near Sepone, Savannakhet Province, Laos, when his aircraft was hit by hostile fire and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.