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Name: Donald Bruce Bloodworth
Rank/Branch: O2/US Air Force
Unit: 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon AF TH
Date of Birth: 28 December 1944
Home City of Record: San Diego CA
Date of Loss: 24 July 1970
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 193031N 1031928E (UG242578)
Status (in 1998): Killed In Action
Category: 1
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4D
Advocacy And Intelligence Index
For Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action, Inc. ( AIIPOWMIAI )
Bob Necci and Andi Wolos
THE POW/MIA INTERNETWORK (c) aiifeb05.98b
Defense POW/MIA Weekly Update February 4, 1998
REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICEMEN FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA IDENTIFIED
The remains of two American servicemen previously unaccounted for
from Southeast Asia have been identified and will be returned to
their families for burial in the United States.
They are identified as Col. Paul G. Underwood, of Goldsboro, N.C.;
and Capt. Donald B. Bloodworth, of San Diego, Cal., both U.S. Air Force.
On July 24, 1970, Capt. Bloodworth and his pilot were flying an F-4D
aircraft as escort on an armed, night reconnaissance mission over Laos.
The pilot radioed that he had lost sight of the markers indicating the
target location. That was the last contact received from the crew.
Joint U.S.-Lao teams investigated this incident twice in 1991 and 1993.
In 1991, the teams surveyed the site, and in 1993, excavated a suspected
crash site recovering aircraft wreckage and human remains. These remains
were repatriated and subsequently identified as Capt. Bloodworth’s. His
crewmate is still unaccounted for.
With the identification of these two servicemen,
2,097 Americans remain unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War.
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