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Re: Remains Identified
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: May 28, 2003
"Ohioan's Remains Identified From Vietnam War Crash Site
An Ohioan is one of nine Navy crew members killed during the Vietnam War whose remains were identified Tuesday by the Pentagon.
Lieutenant junior grade Arthur C. Buck of Sandusky was killed when a surveillance plane crashed into a mountain in Laos.
The nine will be buried June 18th in a joint observance at Arlington National Cemetery.
The remains were recovered during six missions to the crash site between 1993 and last year.
The Pentagon says the plane left a base in Thailand on January eleventh, 1968, on a mission to drop sensors in Laos to detect enemy movements.
The crew reported their plane's descent through dense clouds in their last radio transmission.
Enemy activity in the area prevented a recovery operation following the crash.
The Department of Defense says from the Cold War there are a total of 5 Ohio service men unaccounted for.
From the Vietnam conflict, there are no prisoners of war listed, but 50 Ohioans killed in action have not been recovered. 39 of the 50 are presumed dead.
In Korea, there are a total of 456 Ohioans listed as either POW, MIA, or KIA. According to the Defense Department, only one of them has had his body returned.
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