James Alan Ketterer

Vietnam War
Unit389th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromMilwaukee Wisconsin
Date of DeathJanuary 20 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Major Ketterer was a member of the 389th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam. On January 20, 1968, he was the bombardier/navigator of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4C) on an armed reconnaissance mission near Quang Khe, Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. When over the target his aircraft was hit by a surface to air missile and crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.