Roger Horace Stearns

Vietnam War
Unit390th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromBoulder Colorado
Date of DeathSeptember 11 1969
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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390th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Notes
Captain Stearns was a member of the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Danang Air Base, South Vietnam. On September 11, 1969, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission 5 miles southeast of Sepone, Savannakhet Province, Laos, when his aircraft was shot down by hostile fire. His remains were recovered on May 22, 1990 and identified on November 7, 1990. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.