Vietnam Marine’s remains found, identified

[thedrifter]

November 06, 2006
Vietnam Marine’s remains found, identified

Times staff

The family of a Marine missing in action since the Vietnam War will bury him on the Corps’ 231st birthday, defense officials announced.

Pfc. James E. Widener, from Churchville, N.Y., will be buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery, according to a Nov. 2 Defense Department release.

Widener’s CH-46A Sea Knight crashed in South Vietnam on June 11, 1967, during an attempt to insert troops in the country’s Quang Tri Province. Subsequent patrols never reached the crash site because of enemy activity in the area, the release said.


U.S. and Socialist Republic of Vietnam teams recovered a box of human remains at a district security compound in the Quang Tri province in May 2005 following a tip from Vietnamese officials. Scientists with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used dental records, circumstantial evidence, and mitochondrial DNA from two known maternal relatives to confirm that the remains were Widener’s, the release said.

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