A burial service was held at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, March 21, for seven service members who died in a plane crash near Bu Prang, Vietnam on Oct. 24, 1964. The remains of Army Staff Sgt. Lawrence Woods were recovered in 2010 and recently identified by Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. According to a Department of Defense news release, Woods and seven other crew members were aboard a C-123 Provider that was shot down while resupplying a Special Forces camp near Bu Prang. Shortly after the crash U.S. forces recovered the partial remains of six crew members: Air Force Capt. Valmore W. Bourque, 1st Lt. Robert G. Armstrong, Staff Sgt. Ernest J. Halvorson, Staff Sgt. Theodore B. Phillips, Airman 1st Class Eugene Richardson and Army Pfc. Charles P. Sparks and the complete remains of an eighth crew member, Air Force 1st Lt. Edward J. Krukowiski. There was no sign of Staff Sgt. Woods at the time. Hopefully after nearly fifty years of uncertainty, the ceremony at Arlington offered a measure of closure for Staff Sgt. Woods' family.
A caisson from the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, the Old Guard, carries the remains of seven service members who died in a plane crash in Vietnam on Oct. 24, 1964.
Airmen from the Air Force Honor Guard carry the remains of seven service members who died on Oct. 24, 1964 near Bu Prang, Vietnam.
Airmen in a firing party from the Air Force Honor Guard fire one of three volleys during a burial service for five airmen and two soldiers who died on Oct. 24, 1964 near Bu Prang, Vietnam at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
