Jacksel M. Broughton

Jacksel Markham Broughton was a career officer and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. He retired in the rank of colonel on August 31, 1968, with 43 separate awards and decorations, including four Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Silver Stars and the highest Air Force service decoration for heroism, the presidentiallyawarded Air Force Cross. Broughton avowed that his proudest accomplishment was being combatqualified in every air force fighter from the P47 to the F106. He authored two personal memoirs of the Vietnam War that were highly critical of the direction of the air war there and the rules of engagement.

Broughton was born in Utica, New York. He was a 1942 graduate of Brighton High School in Rochester, New York. He was an Episcopalian. Broughton entered the United States Military Academy on July 15, 1942, appointed from New Yorks 38th congressional district, in the wartime threeyear curriculum that consolidated the cadet second and first class years into a single 12month period. He graduated 839th in general merit among the 852 members of the Class of 1945, completing his flight training while still a cadet at Garner Field, Texas, and Stewart Field, New York. He was commissioned into the United States Army Air Forces on June 5, 1945. Broughton married on December 25, 1951, to Alice Joy Owen, and produced a son and three daughters.

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