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## News Release

# Airman Missing From Vietnam War Accounted For (McGouldrick)

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

U.S. Air Force Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Jr. of New Haven, Conn., will be buried Dec.13, at Arlington National Cemetery. On Dec. 13, 1968, McGouldrick was on a night strikemission when his B-57E Canberra aircraft collided with another aircraft over SavannakhetProvince, Laos. McGouldrick was never seen again and was listed as missing in action.

After the war in July 1978, a military review board amended his official status frommissing in action to presumed killed in action.

Between 1993 and 2004, joint U.S/Lao People’s Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.) teamsattempted to locate the crash site with no success. On April 8, 2007, a joint team located apossible crash site near the village of Keng Keuk, Laos.

From October 2011 to May 2012, joint U.S./L.P.D.R. teams excavated the site three timesand recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage consistence with a B-57E aircraft.

In the identification of McGouldrick, scientists from the Joint POW/MIA AccountingCommand (JPAC) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) usedcircumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools, such as mitochondrial DNA – whichmatched McGouldrick’s great nephew and niece.

Today there are 1,643 American service members that are still unaccounted-for from theVietnam War.

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

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