THE WALL OF FACES

God bless you US Naval Reserve Commander Paul C. CHARVET. Thank you for your sacrifice. Rest in Peace.

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 ==.

== REMEMBRANCE ==

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His remains were Identified on 5 May 2021.

On the remembrance of your 81st birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

POW-MIA...Never Forget

Semper Fortis

Former MIA Commander Paul Claude Charvet, USN, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial (Vietnam War Section - Navy Court "B") in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/charvet%3Dpaul

N.B. that ABMC shows Charvet's rank as "LCDR," while DPAA indicates final rank as "Commander."