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Updated: 6:11 PM Oct 12, 2006
Remains Of Missing Vietnam-Era Pilot Identified
The remains of an Air Force pilot from Texas who was missing in action for decades in Vietnam will soon be returned to his family. Posted: 6:15 PM Oct 12, 2006 |
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(October 12, 2006)--The remains of an Air Force pilot from Texas who was missing in action in Vietnam for decades will soon be returned to this family.
The Defense Department today announced identification of 1st Lt. James Hull of Lubbock.
Burial is planned Nov. 13 at Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington.
Hull and a fellow crewman were on a mission near the Laos-Vietnam border when their plane crashed on Feb. 19,1971.
Both men died.
Hull's body was in the wreckage and couldn't be recovered during combat.
In the 1990's, investigators with the US, Vietnam and Laos interviewed a Vietnamese citizen who produced human remains and an ID tag for Hull.
The joint team wasn't allowed into Laos.
Vietnam turned a bone fragment over to the US.
The identification tag was never recovered.
A site excavated in May yielded more remains.
DNA helped identify Hull.
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