Shorack, Theodore James, Jr., Maj

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Final Rank
Major
Last AFSC
1115A-Pilot
Last AFSC Group
Aircrew
Primary Unit
1966-1966, 14th Air Commando Wing
Service Years
1951 - 1966
Major

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Home State
Minnesota
Minnesota
Year of Birth
1929
 
This Military Service Page was created/owned by CMSgt Walter Kotzur (Walt) to remember Shorack, Theodore James, Jr., Maj.

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Contact Info
Home Town
Salem, Oregon
Last Address
Nha Trang Air Base, Vietnam

MIA Date
Jun 09, 1966
 
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action
Reason
Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location
Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict
Vietnam War
Memorial Coordinates
08E 028

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Major Theodore J Shorack and Captain Robert Ira Bush, both of the 602nd Fighter Squadron, were lost on 9 June 1966. Their A-1Es went down over North Vietnam while on a rescue mission of an F-105 pilot.. One parachute was seen after the collision, but no trace was ever found of either pilot. Their remains have not been repatriated.

He had been stationed in Japan in the early 1950s. He served with th 849th AC & W Squadron at Nagoya, Japan. Later, he served with the 303rd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Sembach, Germany and Laon, France flying the F-84 and F-101. He taught in the ROTC program at Hobart College in Geneva, New York beginning in 1961.

This Veteran has an (IMO) In Memory Of Headstone in Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii and another memorial in Willamette National Cemetery. 

   
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  1948-1952, University of Oregon
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1948
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1952

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  8 Also There at This College:
 
  • Edwards, Kenneth, Col, (1951-1978)
  • Goss, Darr, Col, (1953-1979)
  • Hultgren, Clarence, 1st Lt, (1952-1954)
  13 Also There at This College From Other Sites:
 
  • Jackson, Don, SFC USA(Ret), (1953 - 1992)
  • KOOKEN, David R. (Doc), Cpl, (1942 - 1945)
  • McKee, Jim (Devildog), Sgt, (1948 - 1951)
  • Russell, Howard, Sgt, (1956 - 1958)
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