Burial Held for Local Airman MIA in Vietnam

LONGVIEW (AP) – Long lost and now found, an East Texas Air Force fighter pilot was finally be laid to rest with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. Funeral for Capt. Clyde William Campbell of Longview was held this morning in the post chapel of the Northern Virginian cemetery. Campbell had been missing in action for more than four decades after the 24-year-old pilot’s plane was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War in 1969. Only in 1997 did a joint U.S.-Laotian team find the first human remains related with Campbell’s plane. His widow, Diane Campbell, finally brought his remains back to the United States in 2010.

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