{"id":39523,"date":"2025-07-22T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-airman-killed-on-mountain-with-10-other-soldiers-during-vietnam-war-accounted-for-57-years-later\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:02:15","slug":"u-s-airman-killed-on-mountain-with-10-other-soldiers-during-vietnam-war-accounted-for-57-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-airman-killed-on-mountain-with-10-other-soldiers-during-vietnam-war-accounted-for-57-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. airman killed on mountain with 10 other soldiers during Vietnam War accounted for 57 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An American airman who was killed after being trapped on a mountain with his unit during the Vietnam War has been accounted for nearly 60 years after his death, military officials said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Willis R. Hall was assigned to Lima Site 85, a tactical air navigation radio site on a remote mountain peak in Laos, the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/News-Stories\/ID-Announcements\/Article\/4250497\/airman-accounted-for-from-vietnam-war-hall-w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a news release<\/a>. There were 18 other men assigned to the site. On March 11, 1968, the location was attacked by Japanese commandos, marking the start of a major offensive by communist Vietnamese forces in Laos, which was a neutral country at that time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Multimedia\/Photo-Gallery\/igphoto\/2003757868\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to newspaper clippings<\/a> shared by the DPAA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unit had to evacuate to a narrow ledge of the 5,600-foot mountain. A few hours later, an A-1 Skyraider aircraft was able to provide cover for a rescue operation. U.S. helicopters managed to rescue eight of the men and travel to a base in Thailand. One of the rescued men died while en route to the base, according to a newspaper clipping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/22\/50080ad0-866c-4689-95f0-8c61ca0d1ce1\/thumbnail\/620x866\/c1459112d2aaa22db720f544d27af734\/screenshot-2025-07-22-at-12-40-03-pm.png#\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-07-22-at-12-40-03-pm.png \" height=\"866\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/22\/50080ad0-866c-4689-95f0-8c61ca0d1ce1\/thumbnail\/620x866\/c1459112d2aaa22db720f544d27af734\/screenshot-2025-07-22-at-12-40-03-pm.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Willis R. Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hall and 10 other American soldiers were killed, and their bodies were unable to be recovered, officials said. Hall, a native of \u00a0of Broward County, Florida,   was 40 years old at the time of his death and was survived by his wife Mary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Multimedia\/Photo-Gallery\/igphoto\/2003757878\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to newspaper clippings<\/a>. His name has been engraved on the Courts of the Missing at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, and on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., the DPAA said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, a joint recovery operation by the U.S. and Laos failed to find any of the 11 servicemembers&#8217; remains, but nine years later, a second operation found one set of remains. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Multimedia\/Photo-Gallery\/igphoto\/2003757868\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2005 newspaper clipping<\/a> said that to find the remains, U.S. investigators spoke to Vietnamese commandos who had been involved in the attack. The commandos showed the investigators where they had thrown the bodies of the dead servicemembers off the mountain. Investigators threw dummies from those sites, and used a video camera mounted on a helicopter to see where they landed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, DPAA personnel and partner organization members discovered unexploded ordnance, incident-related materials and possible material evidence and bones near another site on the mountain. Those remains were found to be those of a second technician who died during the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joint recovery teams returned to the mountain earlier this year. Across two operations, the teams found possible human remains and other evidence. Those remains were taken to the DPAA Laboratory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the laboratory, DPAA scientists used <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/memorial-day-fallen-soldier-identified-marcus-engesser\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">anthropological analysis and DNA analysis<\/a><\/span> to study the remains. They also used material evidence found at the site to identify the remains as Hall&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hall&#8217;s family was briefed on his identification in last month. A rosette will be placed on his name on the Courts of the Missing and at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to show that he has been accounted for. Hall is set to be buried in Altoona, Kansas in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kerry-breen\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kerry  Breen<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University&#8217;s Arthur L. 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