Grayson County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Rose, Luther L. 1966
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Department of Defence Press Release November 2, 2004
MIAs Identified from The Vietnam War
            Six servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War have been
identified and are being buried as a group at Arlington National Cemetery Friday
with full military honors.
            They are Air Force Col. Theodore E. Kryszak of Buffalo, NY; Air
Force Col. Harding E. Smith of Los Gatos, Calif.; Air Force Lt. Col. Russell D.
Martin of Bloomfield, Iowa; Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Harold E. Mullins; Air
Force Chief Master Sgt. Luther L. Rose of Howe, Texas, and Air Force Chief
Master Sgt. Ervin Warren, of Philadelphia.
            On June 3, 1966, the crew was aboard an AC-47 “Spooky” gunship
flying a nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over southern Laos.  At about
9:25 p.m., the aircraft radioed, “we have a hot fire,” and another radio
transmission was heard to order “bail out.”  Witnesses reported the aircraft was
on fire, then crashed into a heavily wooded area 30 miles northeast of Tchepone,
in Khannouan Province, Laos.  No parachutes from the crew were observed and no
emergency beepers were heard.  An aerial search of the site found no evidence of
survivors.
            In cooperation with the Lao government, a joint team of U.S. and Lao
specialists traveled to a suspected crash site in Khammouan Province in October
1994 where a villager took them to an area where personal effects, aircraft
wreckage, crew-related materials and a crew member’s identification tag were found.
            In May-June 1995, a joint U.S.-Lao team excavated the site where
they recovered human remains as well as identification media of other aircrew
members.  The U.S. recovery team members were from the Central Identification
Laboratory, Hawaii (CILHI).  CILHI scientists applied a wide array of forensic
techniques to the recovered remains, including comparisons of dental charts and
x-rays, as well as the use of mitochondrial DNA sequencing.
            The DNA sequencing was done by the Armed Forces DNA Identification
Laboratory, whose results aided the CILHI scientists in identifying the remains.
 More than 88,000 Americans are missing in action from all conflicts.  Of these,
1,849 are from the Vietnam War.  The CILHI is now part of the Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command.
            For more information please call the Defense POW/Missing Personnel
Office (DPMO) at (703) 699-1169, or visit http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/. 







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