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PAUL CLAUDE CHARVET
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PAUL C CHARVET
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LEFT FOR PAUL CLAUDE CHARVET
POSTED ON 4.8.2023
POSTED BY: Mary DeWitt
April 2023
By Tammy Ayer, Yakima Herald, Republic WA
A Vietnam War pilot who was missing in action for more than 50 years will be buried with his mother in their family plot at the Mabton Cemetery in Yakima Valley next month.
U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Paul Claude Charvet, who grew up on a Grandview hop farm and was 26 years old when he was killed in Vietnam, was accounted for March 1, 2021. Federal officials announced confirmation of remains as his in January last year, and his remains were given to his family in a Navy ceremony later that month in Anchorage, Alaska.
His mother, Blanche Fleming Charvet, was living in Anchorage before she died at age 101 in August. She was cremated, as was Paul Charvet. His sisters Lorraine Charvet of Anchorage and Dona Re’ Shute, who lives in New Jersey, have kept their ashes.
On April 14, mother and son will be buried at the Mabton Cemetery with Blanche Charvet’s husband of 64 years, Raymond Paul “Ray” Charvet. Ray Charvet died at age 88 in July 2004.
A funeral Mass for Paul and Blanche Charvet will begin at 11 a.m. April 14 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 1201 Missouri Ave. in Grandview. Shute expects people will begin arriving at the Mabton Cemetery at 881 Vance Road around 12:30 p.m.
Members of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association will escort family members to the cemetery, Shute said, followed by a flag ceremony by Navy personnel. The Prosser VFW will perform a 21-gun salute, and a Navy bugler will play taps. A chaplain will speak and a priest will conduct the interment, she said.
A Vietnam War pilot who was missing in action for more than 50 years will be buried with his mother in their family plot at the Mabton Cemetery in Yakima Valley next month.
U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Paul Claude Charvet, who grew up on a Grandview hop farm and was 26 years old when he was killed in Vietnam, was accounted for March 1, 2021. Federal officials announced confirmation of remains as his in January last year, and his remains were given to his family in a Navy ceremony later that month in Anchorage, Alaska.
His mother, Blanche Fleming Charvet, was living in Anchorage before she died at age 101 in August. She was cremated, as was Paul Charvet. His sisters Lorraine Charvet of Anchorage and Dona Re’ Shute, who lives in New Jersey, have kept their ashes.
On April 14, mother and son will be buried at the Mabton Cemetery with Blanche Charvet’s husband of 64 years, Raymond Paul “Ray” Charvet. Ray Charvet died at age 88 in July 2004.
A funeral Mass for Paul and Blanche Charvet will begin at 11 a.m. April 14 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church at 1201 Missouri Ave. in Grandview. Shute expects people will begin arriving at the Mabton Cemetery at 881 Vance Road around 12:30 p.m.
Members of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association will escort family members to the cemetery, Shute said, followed by a flag ceremony by Navy personnel. The Prosser VFW will perform a 21-gun salute, and a Navy bugler will play taps. A chaplain will speak and a priest will conduct the interment, she said.
POSTED ON 5.27.2022
POSTED BY: Jury Washington
Thank You For Your Valiant Service Sailor.
May those who served never be forgotten. Rest in peace LCDR. Charvet, I salute your brave soul. My heartfelt sympathies go out to you and your family.
POSTED ON 3.25.2022
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you...
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am heartened you were returned home after the passage of so many years. May you rest in eternal peace.
POSTED ON 1.26.2022
POSTED BY: K. Wall
Accounted for on March 1, 2021
POSTED ON 9.18.2021
POSTED BY: CLAY MARSTON
LOST NAVY PILOT FROM VIETNAM WAR COMMANDER PAUL C. CHARVET HAS BEEN FOUND AND RETURNED HOME
LOST NAVY PILOT FROM VIETNAM WAR
COMMANDER PAUL C. CHARVET
HAS BEEN FOUND AND RETURNED HOME
WASHINGTON – 14 May 2021 – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Naval Reserve Commander Paul C. Charvet, 26, lost during the Vietnam War, was accounted for on 1 March 2021.
On 21 March 1967, Charvet was the pilot of an A-1H Skyraider airplane assigned to Attack Squadron 215 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard.
During a mission near Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, his plane disappeared in an area of low cloud cover and fog a kilometer northeast of Hon Me Island.
His remains were not recovered after a search of the area.
On 22 March, Radio Hanoi Broadcast reported an American aircraft was shot down the day before off the coast of Thanh Hoa Province.
Charvet’s plane was the only U.S. aircraft loss in that area on 21 March.
Charvet was considered missing in action until 2 December 1977 when his status was changed to “ Presumed Killed in Action.”
A unilateral recovery team from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam recovered possible remains and material evidence, which was turned over to the U.S. in September 2020 and sent to the DPAA Laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for analysis.
DPAA is grateful to the government of Vietnam for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at == www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa == or == https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency ==.
Charvet’s personnel profile may be viewed atn == https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZlbEAG ==.
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