For years, the White House and Pentagon had been pressuring the lab to find an unknown soldier from the Vietnam War. In 1983, Webb was presented with papers to sign, certifying that the X-26 ...

In 1998, the remains of Vietnam’s Unknown Soldier were revealed through DNA analysis to be Air Force First Lieutenant Michael Blassie, who was shot down during a 1972 bombing mission near An Loc ...

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades ...

Twenty-five years ago, the remains of an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery were exhumed and identified as ...

The last unknown U.S. soldier from the Vietnam war was exhumed and identified, through DNA testing, in 1998. But in Vietnam, there are still upwards of 300,000 unidentified soldiers, and thousands ...

Along with the unknown soldier from WWII, the unknown Korean War soldier lay in the Capitol Rotunda from May 28 to May 30, 1958. 4. The Vietnam War’s unknown soldier was selected on May 17, 1984.

Korean War unknown: Also on May 30, 1958, an unidentified soldier from the Korean War was buried in an adjacent crypt. Vietnam War unknown (formerly): In 1984, an unidentified soldier from the ...

In 1994, a POW/MIA activist determined that the remains of the Vietnam Unknown Soldier were likely those of Air Force 1st Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie, who was shot down in Vietnam in 1972.

The unknown soldiers are also never alone, as The Old Guard has kept watch ever since being designated as the Army's ceremonial unit in 1948. This week marks a rare opportunity for the public to ...