Lt. Col. Donald Downing was reported killed in action in April 1978 after going missing in Vietnam in September 1967.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.

A U.S. Air Force pilot from Columbus, Wisconsin, who was killed during the Vietnam War, is finally accounted for.

(WBAY) - An Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who was lost in the Vietnam War has been accounted ... He was declared Killed in Action in 1978 and a funeral service was held in Janesville in June ...

Federal officials have identified the remains of a U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin who went missing during the Vietnam ... ones who died while serving their country in World War II.

Downing as Killed in Action. He was later posthumously promoted ... along with others who are unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam War veterans continue to struggle to make sense of their experiences.

Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam in September 1967 when his plane disappeared.

After more than a half-century, a southern Wisconsin Air Force veteran killed in the Vietnam War finally was reunited ... reported Downing as killed in action. He was later posthumously promoted ...