Eugene Matthew Pabst

Vietnam War
Unit497th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromNew York New York
Date of DeathOctober 7 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Major Pabst was a member of the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon Airfield, Thailand. was a member of the 431st Tactical Fighter Squadron. On October 7, 1966, he was the weapons system officer of a McDonnell Phantom II Reconnaissance Fighter (RF-4C) on a reconnaissance mission near Ba Don over North Vietnam, 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.