Arthur Vincent McLaughlin Jr.

Vietnam War
Unit346th Bomber Squadron
RankCommand Master Sergeant U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromRoxbury Massachusetts
Date of DeathDecember 20 1972
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Command Master Sergeant McLaughlin was a member of the 346th Bomber Squadron, 307th Strategic Wing, Utopea Air Base, Thailand. On December 20, 1972, he was a gunner on a Boeing Stratofortress Bomber (B-52D) on a bombing mission over Hanoi, North Vietnam, when the aircraft was shot down by a surface to air missile. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.