http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/news_releases/2012/release_barnes.pdfrnrnApril 27, 2012rnrnSOLDIER MISSING FROM VIETNAM WAR IDENTIFIED rnrn The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the rnremains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and rnwill be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.rn rn Army Capt. Charles R. Barnes, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., will be buried May 2, in Arlington rnNational Cemetery near Washington, D.C. On March 16, 1969, Barnes and four other service rnmembers departed Qui Nhon Airfields bound for Da Nang and Phu Bai, in a U-21A Ute aircraft. rnAs they approached Da Nang, they encountered low clouds and poor visibility. Communications rnwith the aircraft were lost, and they did not land as scheduled. Immediate search efforts were rnlimited due to hazardous weather conditions, and all five men were list as missing in action. rn From 1986-1989, unidentified human remains were turned over to the U.S. from the rnSocialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) in several different instances. None of the remains were rnidentified given the limits of the technology of the time.rn rnIn 1993, a joint U.S./S.R.V. team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command rn(JPAC), conducted investigations in Quang Nam-Da Nang, and Thua Thien-Hue Provinces. rnThey interviewed a local Vietnamese citizen who supplied remains and an identification tag rnbearing Barnes’ name, which he claimed to have recovered from an aircraft crash site. rn rn In 1999, another joint U.S./S.R.V. team interviewed additional Vietnamese citizens about rnthe crash and they were led to the crash site. In 2000, a joint U.S./S.R.V. team excavated the site rnand recovered human remains and material evidence. rn rn Scientists from the JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used rncircumstantial evidence, and forensic identification tools such as mitochondrial DNA – which rnmatched that of Barnes’ sister – in the identification of the remains. rnrn For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missing rnAmericans, call (703) 699-1420 or visit the DPMO Web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo.