MT @deptofdefense: Two missing Vietnam War #Airmen identified @DoDPOWMIA

News Release: Airmen Missing from Vietnam War Identified

defense.gov 06 Aug '12, 6pm

MT @deptofdefense: Two missing Vietnam War #Airmen identified @DoDPOWMIA

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Air Force Lt. Col. Charles M. Walling of Phoenix, Ariz., and Maj. Aado Kommendant of Lakewood, N.J., will be buried as a group at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 8 -- the 46th anniversary of the crash that took their lives. Walling was individually buried on June 15, at Arlington National Cemetery. On Aug. 8, 1966, Walling and Kommendant were the crew of an F-4C aircraft that crashed while on a close air support mission over Song Be Province, Vietnam. Other Americans in the area reported seeing the aircraft crash and no parachutes being deployed. Search and rescue efforts were not successful in the days following the cr...

Full article: http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15500

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