Fri, Sep 22, 2006
The DoD POW/Missing
Personnel Office (DPMO) has announced that the remains of a US
serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been
identified and returned to his family for burial with full military
honors.
He is Lt. Cmdr. James E. Plowman, U.S. Navy, of Pebble Beach,
Calif and was buried Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery near
Washington D.C.
On March 24, 1967, Plowman and a fellow officer departed the USS
Kitty Hawk in their A-6A Intruder on a night strike mission of an
enemy target in North Vietnam. Radar contact with their aircraft
was lost over the Ha Bac Province as they were departing the target
area. A pilot from another aircraft reported two missile warnings
on his radar screen immediately before contact was lost with
Plowman's aircraft.
Between 1993 and 1996,
joint U.S.-Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) teams, led by the
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), conducted three
investigations in the province. The team interviewed two local
villagers who saw the 1967 crash, and both men recalled seeing
human remains at the site. The team also surveyed the purported
crash site and found several small fragments of aircraft
wreckage.
In 1996, another joint U.S./S.R.V. team excavated the suspected
crash site. The team found human remains from amid the scattered
wreckage. The team was also handed some remains by a local villager
who claimed to have recovered it while scavenging the crater for
metal.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial
evidence, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA
Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the
identification of the remains.
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