The mission to find Major Paul A. Avolese's B-52 bomber was the first time that the defense agency had allowed a nongovernmental partner to conduct work in Vietnam.
Paul Avoles3 was born June 12, 1932 and was from New York. he served in the Air Force's 4133rd Bomb Wing in Vietnam.
On July 7, 1967, he an his crew were flying from a U.S. base on Guam Island alongside other B-52s to bomb a target in South Vietnam. As two of the bombers maneuvered into place about 65 miles southeast of what was then Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, they collided, igniting a "fireball."
Eight days after the crash, Col. Mitchell Cobeaga of the Air Force notified Avoles's parents in a letter that the exact cause of the explosion was unknown.
Avolese, who was 35 at the time, was declared dead a few days afterwards. The U.S. government later classified his remains, as well as those of five others missing, as "nonrecoverable."
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