WALLACE, HOBART MCKINLEY JR
Remains Returned 04/11/1986
ID 03/27/2002
Name: Hobart McKinley Wallace Jr.
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/O4
Unit: MAG 12 1 MAW 533 All Waether Tac Squadron
Date of Birth: 10 October 1933
Home City of Record: SHARON WV
Date of Loss: 19 January 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 0 0
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A #152636
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: PATRICK MURRAY-REMAINS RETURNED 85
Refno: 0996
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:
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT
No further information available at this time.
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Library of Congress files:
Continuance in a Missing Status
Name: Hobart M. Wallace
Subjects: Missing
Reel: 225
Page: 38-41
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 69 01 19
Date of Information: 68 01 19
Originator: USMC
Category: Casualty files
NVN: DIA MISCELLANEOUS/Freedom of Information Request for Information on
Lieutenant Colonel Hobart M. Wallace, USMC
Country: NVN
Subjects: Aircraft downed
Reel: 392
Page: 129-38
Type of Document: Memorandum
Date of Report: 87 12 29
Date of Information: 68 01 19
Document Number: 190216ZJAN68
Originator: U.S. Navy
Category: DIA Archives
North Vietnam, pre-1975: Incident Summary; Biographical Data
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975
Name: Hobart M. Wallace
Subjects: Aircraft downed; Vinh Yen Area; Tuyen Quang Province
Reel: 225
Page: 1-7
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 00 00 00
Date of Information: 68 01 19
Originator: DoD
Category: Casualty files
North Vietnam, pre-1975: Change of Status from MIA to KIA
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975
Name: Hobart M. Wallace
Subjects: Aircraft downed; Killed; Hanoi area
Comments: 17/06/74 casualty report and other related documents enclosed
Reel: 225
Page: 46-48
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 74 05 00
Date of Information: 68 01 19
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02/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000rNOEXEA4
On March 27, 2002, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now
DPAA) identified the remains of Lieutenant Colonel Hobart
McKinley Wallace Jr., missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Colonel Wallace joined the U.S. Marine Corps from
West Virginia and was a member of Marine All-Weather Attack
Squadron 533, Marine Air Group 12. On January 19, 1968, he
piloted an A-6A Intruder (bureau number 152636) on a strike
mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. The Intruder went down
at some point during the mission, and LtCol Wallace was killed
as a result of the incident. Efforts to locate or recover him at
the time were unsuccessful. In April 1986, the Vietnamese
government returned a set of unidentified remains to U.S.
custody. In 2002, advances in forensic technology allowed for
some of the returned remains to be identified as those of LtCol
Wallace.
Lieutenant Colonel Wallace 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.