The World - News from Feb. 17, 1986
A U.S.-Laotian team will begin excavations today in the jungle foothills of southern Laos in a search for the remains of 14 U.S. airmen missing since the Vietnam War, the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, said. An Air Force AC-130 gunship was shot down in the area March 29, 1972. One of the crewmen aboard was identified as Capt. Richard Conroy Halpin of San Diego. In an earlier such excavation, the remains of 13 U.S. airmen were found.
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