Remains of Vietnam era MIA pilot from Mobile identified

Remains of Vietnam era MIA pilot from Mobile identified

(EXCERPT) The Associated Press September 09, 2003

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The remains of an Air Force captain from the Mobile area whose
helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War have been identified
and will be returned to relatives, federal officials said.

The remains of Capt. Richard C. Yeend Jr., missing in action since
June 9, 1968, were found in February and identified last week, said
Larry Greer, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department's MIA office.

Greer spoke to the Mobile Register for a story in Tuesday's papers.

"We always knew he had died because it was witnessed," he said. "But
even so, he was never found and that haunted us," said Richard Yeend's
brother, Mike Yeend.

Yeend, who graduated from McGill Institute in Mobile and f...

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