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## News Release

# Airman Missing In Action From The Vietnam War Is Identified (Morgan)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have beenidentified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Major Burke H. Morgan, U.S. Air Force, of Manitou Springs, Colo. He was buriedbeside his wife, Mary, at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Thursday. The service there coincidedwith the 45th reunion of his graduating class at the academy.

On August 22, 1967, Morgan and a fellow officer took off from Nakhon Phanom air base,Thailand, in their A-26A Invader on an armed reconnaissance mission over Laos. The crew hadradio contact on their mission shortly after midnight, but they were neither seen nor heard fromagain. Electronic and visual searches of their last-reported location in Xiangkhoang Province, aswell as over the planned flight path, did not locate the missing aircraft.

A joint U.S.-Lao People’s Democratic Republic team traveled to the province in 1993 tointerview three informants about various crash sites. The men recalled the 1967 crash, as well asthe burial of the crew members. They also stated that one of the bodies was disinterred byunknown persons in 1986.

Four years later, another joint U.S.-Lao team resurveyed the original crash site, andrequested that the Lao government undertake a unilateral investigation. The Lao government wasable to confirm that some remains were exhumed in the mid-1980s, and promised to continue itsinvestigation.

Then in 2002, Lao government officials reported that the remains had been turned over toa Lao official in 1987 or 1988, but that the official had since died. His driver, however, hadpossession of those remains and had been holding them in safekeeping awaiting directions fromauthorities.

Scientists of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting command were able to identify thoseremains using a variety of forensic methods including analysis of skeletal and dental remains.

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

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