Oscar Mauterer

Vietnam War
Unit602nd Fighter Squadron
RankColonel U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromNewark New Jersey
Date of DeathFebruary 15 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Colonel Mauterer was a member of the 602nd Special Operations Squadron, Nakhom Phenom, Royal Thai Air Force Base. On February 15, 1966, he was the pilot of a Douglas Skyraider Attack Aircraft (A1-E) on a mission 5 miles south of Na Phao in the Mu Gia Pass area of Khammouane Province, Laos, when his aircraft was hit by hostile fire and ejected safely, but then contact was lost. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.