Donald M. Singer

The career Air Force electronic warfare officer was an amateur astronomer and enjoyed gazing at the night sky with a homemade 6-inch reflecting telescope. He had graduated from Germantown High School in 1946 and was active in drama, debate and language organizations there. Air Force officers’ training and assignments around the world followed graduation from Marietta (Ohio) College. The 37-year-old Major Singer was an Electronics Warfare Office (EWO) on a F-105-F “Wild Weasel” aircraft when it was shot down over Vietnam on August 17, 1966. Singer, assigned to the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron, was considered Missing in Action until October 1977, when evidence that he had died was found. Survivors included his wife, four children, both parents and brother.