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The Department of
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced Friday 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 at Arlington National Cemetery.
He is Air Force Col. James L. Carter of Johnson City,
Tennessee.
On Feb. 3, 1966, Carter was the aircraft commander of a C-123
"Provider" aircraft which had taken off from Khe Sanh in South
Vietnam on a supply mission to Dong Ha, South Vietnam. The plane
was not seen again, and searches along the flight route did not
find a crash site.
Joint U.S. and Vietnamese teams investigated potential crash
sites in Quang Tri Province on three occasions between 1993 and
1999. They interviewed Vietnamese villagers who took them to three
different crash sites. Only one of the sites revealed wreckage
consistent with that of a C-123 aircraft. Several of the informants
said that the bodies of the crew and passengers were buried near
the site where the aircraft crashed into a mountain in 1966.
Specialists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC)
conducted four excavations at the site between 2000 and 2003.
During these four excavations, they recovered human remains,
personal effects and other debris. Laboratory analysis of the
remains by forensic scientists at JPAC led to Carter's
identification. Comparison of dental records with the recovered
remains was a key factor in the identification.
Of the 88,000 Americans missing in action from all conflicts,
1,833 are from the Vietnam War, with 1,397 of those within the
country of Vietnam. Another 750 Americans have been accounted for
in Southeast Asia since the end of the war. Of the Americans
identified, 524 are from within Vietnam.
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