INGVALSON, ROGER DEAN
Deceased 12/24/2011
Name: Roger Dean Ingvalson
Rank/Branch: O4/United States Air Force
Unit: 34th TFS
Date of Birth: 20 June 1928
Home City of Record: Austin MN
Date of Loss: 28 May 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 173000 North 1063300 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D
Missions: 87
Other Personnel in Incident: none
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. 2023
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Update - 1997
Roger Ingvalson was shot down on his 87 mission over North Vietnam. He was
the pilot in a single seat F-105D when he was captured 05/28/68. He endured
20 months in solitary, and torture that included ropes and leg irons. Roger
Ingvalson retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel in January
of 1976. After his release, he was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star,
the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit, the DFC with 2
Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, and the POW
medal. He has remarried he and his wife Booncy reside in Tennessee. Since
his retirement, the Colonel has spent 15 years operating a prison ministry
that he founded. He enjoys golf, and continues his mission work. He ministry
has recently taken him to the Ukraine. Roger and Bouncy now have 4 sons and
four grandsons.
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Decorated war hero Col. Roger Ingvalson dies at 83
WRCB-TV
He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action, and was the 1986 recipient of the Liberty
Bell Award presented by the Chattanooga Bar Association. He was profiled in the Veterans History
Project in 2003 by WRCB and Erlanger Hospital, ...
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http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_216088.asp
Ingvalson, Roger Dean, Col. (Ret.) Much-Decorated Prisoner Of War Founded Prison Ministry posted December 25, 2011
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https://www.timesfreepress.com/obits/2019/may/26/booncy-ingvalson/106300/
Dorothy “Booncy” Hayes Fullam Ingvalson, 86 passed away on May 22, 2019. She was
born in Mooresburg, Tenn.,
in 1932, and moved to Chattanooga with her mother as a child. She was a 1951
graduate of Chattanooga City High,
where she met her first husband, Wayne Fullam. She and Wayne were married in
1954, and had three children,
Mike, Mark and Gary. He was killed in action in October of 1967. During the
Vietnam era, Booncy was active with
the League of Families, traveling with her boys to Paris and insisting that the
government of North Vietnam abide
by the Geneva Convention in its treatment of Prisoners of War. One of her
personal highlights was singing and
giving her personal testimony with the Billy Graham crusade. Her singing voice
and her life story brought many
people to the comfort of Jesus Christ. In March of 1973, Booncy welcomed home
Wayne’s best friend, Lt Col
Roger Ingvalson who had been a POW during the war and had lost his wife during
that time. Booncy married
Roger in December of 1973, gaining a fourth son, Craig. Following Roger’s
retirement from the Air Force, she
and her family moved back to Chattanooga, where she supported husband and sons
with passion and strength,
buoyed by the love of God. She was the model of a strong wife and mother, ever
supportive. Following Roger’s
death in 2011, when friends would ask about her interest in ever marrying again,
she always replied, “no way,
I’ve been married to the two best. Why would I marry again?”......