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## News Release

# Airman Missing From Vietnam War Identified (Hanley)

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

Air Force Maj. Larry J. Hanley, 26, of Walla Walla, Wash., will be buried on July 13, inhis hometown. On Nov. 4, 1969, Hanley, an F-105D Thunderchief pilot, was attacking an enemyanti-aircraft position, when his aircraft crashed in Khammouan Province, Laos. Neither Hanley’swingman, in a separate aircraft, nor the forward air controller directing the attack, witnessed theimpact, and the location of the crash site was unknown. As a result of this incident Hanley wasdeclared missing in action.

In 1979, a military review board reevaluated Hanley’s case, and amended Hanley’s statusto killed in action.

In 1994 and 1998, joint U.S./Lao People’s Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.) teamsinvestigated the case in Khammouan Province but were unable to correlate a crash site with theloss of Hanley’s aircraft.

On Feb. 24, 2012, the Joint Prisoner of War Accounting Command (JPAC) receivedhuman remains from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Stony Beach division. Theremains were obtained from an indigenous source, who found the remains at a crash site inKhammouan Province.

To identify the remains, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA IdentificationLaboratory (AFDIL) used circumstantial evidence and forensic tools, such as dental comparisonsand mitochondrial DNA, which matched Hanley’s mother and sister.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1420.

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