David Shepardson Detroit News Washington Bureau Comments Washington A U.S. Army crew chief from Michigan missing and presumed killed in Vietnam since 1970 has been accounted for and will be buried with full military honors, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office said Army Specialist 5th class John L. Burgess of Sutton Bay, the crew chief of a UH-1H Iroquois helicopter that crashed in Binh Phuoc Province, South Vietnam, in June 1970, has been accounted for using forensic and circumstantial evidence. Burgess was 21 at the time of the crash and listed as killed/body not recovered. Also killed in the crash were 1st Lt. Leslie F. Douglas Jr., of...
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