Air Force Pilot Missing in Action from Vietnam War is Identified.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 2006-US DOD: Air Force Pilot Missing in Action from Vietnam War is Identified(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09112006 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. Air Force officer missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

He is Col. Charles J. Scharf of San Diego. His funeral is scheduled for Nov. 30 at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington D.C. Col Scharf and a fellow crew member took off in their F-4C Phantom IIs from Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand on October 1, 1965. Their mission was to attack an enemy concentration and a major highway in North...