RICHARD DYER
RICHARD DYER
9W/104
REMEMBRANCES
Final Mission of 1LT Richard Dyer
I was his roommate
SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM VIETNAM WAR NOW ACCOUNTED FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 463-13
25 June 2013
SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION FROM
VIETNAM WAR NOW ACCOUNTED FOR
The Department of Defense POWMissing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that a soldier, missing from the Vietnam War, has been accounted for and will be buried with full military honors along with two of his crew members.
Army Specialist 5 JOHN LAWRENCE BURGESS, of Sutton Bay, Michigan, was the crew chief of a UH-1H Iroquois helicopter which crashed in Binh Phuoc Province, South Vietnam.
Also, killed in the crash were -
1st Lieutenant LESLIE FORREST DOUGLAS Jr., of Verona, Mississippi
1st Lieutenant RICHARD DYER, of Central Falls, Rhode Island
and
Sergeant 1st Class JUAN COLON-DIAZ, of Comerio, Puerto Rico.
Another crew member, Private First Class JOHN GOOSMAN, survived the crash and was rescued.
Remains representing Dyer, Colon-Diaz, and Burgess, will be buried as a group in a single casket, on 2 July, at Arlington National Cemetery.
On 30 June 1970, while on a command and control mission, the helicopter was struck by enemy fire, causing it to crash.
Shortly thereafter, friendly forces recovered remains of Douglas, Colon-Diaz, and Dyer.
The three men were individually identified and buried with full military honors.
At that time, no remains were attributed to Burgess.
From 1992 to 2012, more than a dozen joint U.S. Socialist Republic of Vietnam (S.R.V.) teams investigated the case, in Binh Phuoc Province, recovering human remains, personal effects, military equipment, and aircraft wreckage associated with this loss.
Burgess was accounted for using forensic and circumstantial evidence.