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HONORED ON PANEL 7E, LINE 7 OF THE WALL
LEO SYDNEY BOSTON
WALL NAME
LEO S BOSTON
PANEL / LINE
7E/7
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
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REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR LEO SYDNEY BOSTON
POSTED ON 10.21.2022
POSTED BY: DAVID THOMPSON - CURATOR
MUSEUM POW/MIA BRACELET DISPLAY
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 [email protected]
POSTED ON 5.31.2021
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you on memorial day and always....
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am relieved to see you have been returned home. Rest in eternal peace.
POSTED ON 3.11.2021
POSTED BY: Dawn
MIA BRACELET
When I was in high school in 1969, I bought an MIA bracelet with the name Leo Sydney Boston, and I didn't take it off for years. Eventually, the metal began to degrade, and started scratching my arm, so I took it off, but still have it. I always wondered about him, and am glad he was found...I thank him for his service!!! Dawn
POSTED ON 5.12.2020
POSTED BY: KR
Former MIA Col. Leo S. Boston - - Update from DPAA (Remains Recovered)
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the remains of former MIA Colonel Leo Sydney Boston were positively identified on 25 April 2011:
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ofSTkEAM
On the date of his loss, 29 April 1966, Captain Boston was the pilot of an A-1E Skyraider from the 602nd Air Commando Squadron flying out of Udorn RTAB participating in a search and rescue mission over North Vietnam. His aircraft went down in Son La Province in NVN (possibly shot down by a MIG-17). He was maintained as missing until 27 April 1978 when the Air Force made a Presumptive Finding of Death (PFoD) determination. While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted him with his contemporaries from Captain to Colonel. Between 1996 and 2005, several joint US/Vietnamese investigations and excavations of a crash site recovered aircraft wreckage, human remains and crew-related equipment. In 2011, modern advances in forensic techniques allowed for the positive identification of (now) Col. Boston from among the remains recovered there.
As of the date of this remembrance, there are 1,587 Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000ofSTkEAM
On the date of his loss, 29 April 1966, Captain Boston was the pilot of an A-1E Skyraider from the 602nd Air Commando Squadron flying out of Udorn RTAB participating in a search and rescue mission over North Vietnam. His aircraft went down in Son La Province in NVN (possibly shot down by a MIG-17). He was maintained as missing until 27 April 1978 when the Air Force made a Presumptive Finding of Death (PFoD) determination. While in MIA status, the U.S. Air Force promoted him with his contemporaries from Captain to Colonel. Between 1996 and 2005, several joint US/Vietnamese investigations and excavations of a crash site recovered aircraft wreckage, human remains and crew-related equipment. In 2011, modern advances in forensic techniques allowed for the positive identification of (now) Col. Boston from among the remains recovered there.
As of the date of this remembrance, there are 1,587 Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.