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## News Release

# Airman KIA From Vietnam War Identified (Wall)

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

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jerry M. Wall, 24, of Jacksonville, Texas, will be buried Oct.26, in San Antonio. On May 18, 1966, Wall and four other crew members were aboard a C-123BProvider aircraft that crashed while carrying out a nighttime flare-drop mission over Binh Dinh,South Vietnam. Nearby U.S. ground troops reported seeing Wall’s aircraft hit by enemy groundfire and crash. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented immediate search and rescue efforts.Later that day the remains of three of the five crew members were recovered.

From 2007 to 2012, joint U.S./Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) teams conductedinterviews and excavations of the crash site in Binh Dinh Province. Department of Defensecasualty and life support experts identified the location as Wall’s possible loss site. The teamsexcavated the site and found human remains, military equipment, a military identification tagbearing Wall’s information, and aircraft wreckage of a C-123.

In the identification of the remains, 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 radiograph, dental records andmitochondrial DNA–which matched Wall’s mother.

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

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