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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: Colonel Oscar Mauterer
Additional Description: 602nd Fighter Squadron, 3rd TFW, 13th AF, United States Air Force

August 29, 1925 to February 15, 1966 (POW-MIA)

Oscar was born and raised in New Jersey. In 1944, he joined the Army Air Corps and served as a B-29 navigator. He was a devoted husband and father of two children, Pam and Randall. Oscar spent his last five years, prior to Vietnam, serving in Charlottesville as a USAF ROTC instructor at the University of Virginia. In 1966 his A1E Skyraider was struck by enemy ground fire and he parachuted from his burning aircraft. He was seen alive by his wingman, but he was never found.

Through the years, reports surfaced that Oscar was captured and/or killed by Pathet Lao. On December 01, 1977, Oscar Mauterer was posthumously promoted to Colonel and officially declared dead. He has a memorial headstone in Arlington National Cemetery.
Submitted: April 15, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380313
File Size: 0.635 Megabytes

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