«Breaking News» Body of Navy flight officer who went missing in Vietnam 50 years ago will finally be laid to rest

Almost 51 years to the day after Lt. Richard "Tito" Lannom's fighter plane went missing over Vietnam, his family will finally get to lay him to rest.

The flight officer and his unnamed pilot were declared missing in action on March 1, 1968 after flying their A-6A Intruder over Vietnamese islands known to have light anti-aircraft artillery.

Lannom's family was forced to wait five decades to find out what happened to their lost loved one. 

U.S. Navy flight officer Lt. Richard "Tito" Lannom's remains were found on the remote Vietnamese island of Tra Ban in 2017 after he was declared missing in action 49 years prior

In 2017, a Vietnamese excavation team led by Col. Nguyen Van Thuong found the remains of at least one U.S. veteran at a crash site on the Vietnamese island of Tra Ban after a two and a half hour climb up the island's steep cliffs, CBS News reported.

The U.S. Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency confirmed the remains were Lannom's on September 25, 2018 after a forensic analysis was conducted.

Thanks to their efforts, Lannom's body will be laid to rest with full military honors in his home town of Union City, Tennessee next week.

Charlotte Shaw, left, married Lannom, right, two years before he departed on his fatal mission in Vietnam in 1968

The discovery of Lannom's remains have given a chance of closure for his wife Charlotte Shaw, who he married two years before embarking on his fatal mission.

'It was the most overwhelming, unbelievable, astounding news,' Shaw, who later remarried, told CBS News about the day she was informed her late husband's body had been discovered.

'I just want him to know how proud that I have been all of these years, to have been his wife. We were there for each other. And we were just, we were just one. And soul mates. And we still are. Two-and-a-half years were worth everything. Because it was worth that price of love. I would just like to be able to tell him.' 

Shaw (right), who later remarried, plans to attend her late husband's military funeral in Union City, Tennessee next week

Lannom was one of 58,220 U.S. soldiers killed during the Vietnam War, according to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

He had been sent to attack enemy targets northeast of Haiphong. 

His name is etched on both the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, which honors soldiers unaccounted-for who fought in Vietnam.

The DPAA said a rosette will be placed next to Lannom's name to indicate he has since been accounted for.

'It's our job to make sure that that story is continued to be told, decades from now,' said Lt. Col. Adam Points, who leads the U.S. POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hanoi. 

'We owe it to the family members. No one story will be forgotten.'

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Main photo article Almost 51 years to the day after Lt. Richard “Tito” Lannom’s fighter plane went missing over Vietnam, his family will finally get to lay him to rest.
The flight officer and his unnamed pilot were declared missing in action on March 1, 1968 after flying their A-6A Intruder over...

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