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Remains of Marine shot down during Vietnam War heading home after 48 years

Published February 25, 2017
FoxNews.com

A Marine radar intercept officer missing nearly 48 years after he was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War has been accounted for after his remains were found last year, the Bergen Record reports.

The remains of Marine Corps Reserve 1st Lt. William (Billy) Ryan, of Bogota, N.J., were identified through DNA tests conducted by the Defense Pow/MIA Accounting Agency at the Pentagon, the paper reported Friday.

Ryan’s plane crashed on a combat mission in southern Laos near the Vietnam border on May 11, 1969, the day before his son’s first birthday. 

“I always knew my dad died in the crash, and that’s what my mom told me,” Michael Ryan, 48 told the paper. “What she didn’t tell me is that part of her held out hope that maybe she’d see his face again.”

 

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Re: Remains of Marine shot down during Vietnam War heading home after 48 years
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2017, 02:47:18 pm »
Welcome Home, Marine. RIP, and thanks.
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