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## News Release

# Navy Pilot Missing From Vietnam War Identified (Broms)

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.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward J. Broms, Jr., 25, of Meadville, Penn., was buried on Sept. 7, inArlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On Aug. 1, 1968, Broms was the pilot of anA-4C Skyhawk aircraft that crashed while attacking enemy targets in Ha Tinh Province, NorthVietnam. Three other U.S. pilots in the flight did not witness the crash, and search-and-rescueteams found no sign of the aircraft or Broms.

In 1993, a joint U.S/Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) team, led by the JointPOW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), traveled to Ha Tinh Province to interview villagersand analyze leads. As a result, the team found and surveyed the crash site locating aircraftwreckage and military equipment. In addition, a villager turned over human remains that hisfather found at the site in 1968. The remains could not be identified given the technology of thetime. During an excavation of the site in 1995, a second joint team located more aircraftwreckage but no additional remains.

In 2011, given advances in DNA technology, the remains were reanalyzed. Scientistsfrom JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) identified the remainsas Broms, using circumstantial evidence and mitochondrial DNA – which matched that of his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) 699-1169.

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