WRIGHT, JAMES JOSEPH

08/23/78 REMAINS RETURNED

Name: James Joseph Wright
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 07 May 1939
Home City of Record: MERCED  CA
Date of Loss:  02 November 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 205500 North  1055200 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A #152629
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0888

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: 08/23/78 REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI

CACCF/CRASH/AIRCREW

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress files:

South Vietnam, pre-1975: Freedom of Information Action
Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975

Name: Wright, James J.

Subjects: Missing; Aircraft downed

Comments: Additional documents related to subject are included.

Reel: PDS21

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 77 11 09

Date of Information: 00 00 00

Originator: DoD

Category: Shields Files

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02/2020

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• Conflict
• Service
• Status
• Date of Accounting

• VIETNAM WAR
• UNITED STATES NAVY
• Accounted For
• 09/11/1978

On September 11, 1978, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Commander James Joseph Wright, missing from the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Commander Wright, who joined the U.S. Navy from California, served with Attack Squadron 196, embarked aboard the USS Constellation (CVA-64). On November 2, 1967, he was a crewmember on board an A-6A Intruder on a mission against enemy targets near Hanoi, North Vietnam. The Intruder crashed during the mission and LCDR Wright was killed in the incident. Hostile presence in the area inhibited recovery efforts immediately following the crash. In 1978, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains to the U.S. which were later identified as those of LCDR Wright

Lieutenant Commander Wright is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.

 

LCDR JAMES JOSEPH WRIGHT

• Unit VA 196
• Historical Country of Loss
   
• Current Country of Loss
  VIETNAM
• Home of Record CA