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## News Release

# Army Soldiers MIA From Vietnam War Are Identified (Barker, Dugan, Dillender, Chubb)  

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that theremains of four U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified. Theywill be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

They are Maj. Jack L. Barker, Waycross, Ga.; Capt. John F. Dugan, Roselle, N.J.; Sgt. WilliamE. Dillender, Naples, Fla.; and Pfc. John J. Chubb, Gardena, Calif., all from the Army’s 101st AirborneDivision. Chubb will be buried in Inglewood, Calif. on Feb. 18. Barker, Dugan and Dillender will beburied on April 12 in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington. D.C.

On March 20, 1971, Maj. Barker and Capt. Dugan were piloting a UH-1H Huey helicopter,with Sgt. Dillender and Pfc. Chubb on board. The aircraft was participating in a troop extractionmission in the Savannakhet Province of Laos. As the helicopter approached the landing zone, it was hitby heavy enemy ground fire. It exploded in the air and there were no survivors. Continued enemyactivity in the area prevented any recovery attempts.

A refugee in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand showed an identification tag of Pfc. Chubb and amedallion to a U.S. interviewer in 1986. The medallion was reportedly recovered near the samegeneral location from an F-105 crash site. However, the location and the aircraft type did not correlatewith the missing aircraft and soldiers.

Between 1988 and 2001, joint U.S.-Lao People’s Democratic Republic teams, lead by the JointPOW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), conducted four investigations and three excavations forthese soldiers without positive results. An investigation team surveyed three crash sites in 2002 afterinterviewing local villagers from the province. The team recovered a fragment of human tooth andsome crew-related artifacts from one of the crash sites.

In October and November 2004, another joint investigation team excavated the crash site andrecovered additional human remains and crew-related evidence. The wreckage was from a UH-1Hhelicopter, and the team found insignia worn by members of the 101st Airborne Division.

The remains included nine fragments of teeth which the forensic anthropologists at JPAC wereable to match with detailed information from medical and dental records.

From the Vietnam War, 1,807 Americans are still unaccounted-for with 364 of those fromLaos. Another 839 have been accounted-for in Southeast Asia with 208 of those from losses in Laos.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO website at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703)-699-1169.

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