This begs the question, with their identifications recinded, “How many more share the same plight as Thomas Hart and George MacDonald, who have not been returned to list of unaccounted for personnel in Southeast Asia?”
Both David Williams and Robert Govan were returned to the list of the unaccounted for personnel in Southeast Asia. The board ruled that there was not enough evidence to support an identification of Williams and Govan. Other families with questionable identification have also disputed those finding before the Armed Forces Identification Review Board (AFIRB.) The board always upheld the CIL-HI identification. The families filed challenges with the Armed Forces Identification Review Board. United in their protest, both the Williams and Govan family exercised their right to dispute the identification. No identifying items were recovered from the crash site that could associate the men to the recovery site.No remains were individually identifiable.
Reaching a new level of creativity, CIL-HI identified the handful of remains as David R.
CIL-HI did not even attempt mt-DNA testing. Williams and Robert Govan, lost over Laos on April 1, 1967.Īccording to the list remains for Williams and Govan were returned Jand identified June 14, 2002. Accounted for from the Vietnam War' lists names of David R.
