On April 3, 1969, one week before Colorado Air National Guard Capt. Perry H. Jefferson was scheduled to return home from Vietnam, he was officially reported missing in action. Jefferson, an intelligence officer with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron, disappeared while working as an aerial observer on board an O-1G Bird Dog aircraft over a mountainous region in Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam. According to the Department of Defense, search and rescue efforts to recover Jefferson and the pilot of the aircraft, Army 1st Lt. Arthur G. Ecklund, lasted three days, but hostile threats and lack of evid
On April 3, 1969, one week before Colorado Air National Guard Capt. Perry H. Jefferson was scheduled to return home from Vietnam, he was officially reported missing in action. Jefferson, an intelligence officer with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron, disappeared while working as an aerial observer on board an O-1G Bird Dog aircraft over a mountainous region in Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam. According to the Department of Defense, search and rescue efforts to recover Jefferson and the pilot of the aircraft, Army 1st Lt. Arthur G. Ecklund, lasted three days, but hostile threats and lack of evidence pointing to the location of the downed aircraft precluded further efforts. Jefferson's rememains were identified Dec. 18, 2007, and he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, April 3, 2008, exactlyu 30 years after he went missing in action.
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