25 years ago the remains of an American soldier from the Vietnam War in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were identified as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie.

They have been identified as the remains of 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, an Air Force pilot whose attack jet crashed on May 11, 1972, near a village in South Vietnam called An Loc. He was 24 and had ...

Once buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie became the unknown service member from the ...

History Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: What you should know 100 years after its dedication The hallowed site honors dead service members who have not been identified.

In 1998, the remains of Vietnam’s Unknown Soldier were revealed through DNA analysis to be Air Force First Lieutenant Michael Blassie, who was shot down during a 1972 bombing mission near An Loc ...

History Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: What you should know 100 years after its dedication The hallowed site honors dead service members who have not been identified.

A sacred part of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier usually only visited by presidents and foreign dignitaries is open to the public this week.

Now, 100 years after the first entombment, Blassie’s exhumation is part of a broader challenge to “the nationalist ideology” that the tombs represent, said Michael J. Allen, a history ...

Michael Blassie was 24 years old when he was shot down while flying his A-37 Dragonfly in the Battle of An Loc in 1972. His remains and a few artifacts were recovered, and the remains were ...

"The Blassie family does not have any comment at this time, until we receive official confirmation that it is Michael," Mary Hart, Blassie's sister, said in Florissant, Mo., a St. Louis suburb.

If the tomb is opened, it is quite possible the scientists will find that the man laid to rest in 1984 was Michael Blassie, a highly decorated Air Force lieutenant who was killed on May 11, 1972 ...