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## News Release

# Airman Missing From Vietnam War Identified (Campbell)

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

Air Force Capt. Clyde W. Campbell, 24, of Longview, Texas, will be buried June 21, atArlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On March 1, 1969, Campbell was a pilotaboard an A-1J Skyraider aircraft that crashed while carrying out a close air-support mission inHouaphan Province, Laos. American forward air controllers, directing the mission nearby,reported hearing an explosion—they believed to be Campbell’s bombs—later learned Campbell’saircraft had crashed. No parachutes were seen in the area.

In 1997, a joint U.S./Lao People’s Democratic Republic (L.P.D.R.) team investigated acrash site in Houaphan Province, Laos, within 100 meters of the last known location of Campbell.In addition to human remains, the team located aircraft wreckage and military equipment, whichcorrelated with Campbell’s aircraft.

From 2009 to 2010, additional joint U.S./L.P.D.R. recovery teams investigated andexcavated the crash site three times. Teams recovered additional human remains, militaryequipment—including an aircraft data plate—and a .38-caliber pistol matching the serial numberissued to Campbell.

Scientists from the JPAC used circumstantial evidence and forensic identification tools inthe identification of Campbell.

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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