ZAVOCKY, JAMES JOHN

Name: James John Zavocky
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 06 January 1942
Home City of Record: PARMA OH
Date of Loss: 25 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 191958 North  1055159 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA3B
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Claire Bois, Edward Jacobs, both KIA/BNR
Refno: 0812

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS: RADIO CONTACT LOST OVER WATER SAR NEG

CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW/3 YRS UNITED STATES NAVY

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress Files:

North Vietnam, pre-1975: biographical data; circumstances of loss;
biographic/site report
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Zavocky, James John

Subjects: Aircraft downed; gulf of tonkin; Killed

Comments: killed during coastal reconnaissance

Reel: 163

Page: 16-19

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 67 08 28

Date of Information: 67 08 25

Category: Casualty files

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North Vietnam, pre-1975: change of category from dead (bnr) to remains
non-recoverable
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Zavocky, James John

Subjects: Aircraft downed

Reel: 163

Page: 15

Type of Document: Memorandum

Date of Report: 74 06 07

Date of Information: 67 08 25

Originator: usn

Category: Casualty files

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LTJG JAMES JOHN ZAVOCKY

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On August 25, 1967, an RA-3B Skywarrior (bureau number 144835, call sign “Quizshow 09”) with three crew members carried out a night reconnaissance mission over the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. As the aircraft approached the coastline, radar contact was lost, and could not be reestablished. A search for “Quizshow 09” discovered no sign of it or its crew. All three members of the crew remain unaccounted for.

Lieutenant Junior Grade James John Zavocky, who joined the U.S. Navy from Ohio, was a member of Heavy Photographic Squadron 61. He was the photographer and navigator aboard “Quizshow 09” when it went missing, and he was lost with the aircraft. He remains unaccounted for. Today, Lieutenant Junior Grade Zavocky is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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