Air Force Pilot Missing From Vietnam War is Identified

But wait, there’s more…

(From POWnetwork)

LAPHAM, ROBERT GRANTHAN
Remains ID announced 10/18/2007
Name: Robert Granthan Lapham
Rank/Branch: O4/US Air Force
Unit:
Date of Birth: 18 February 1927
Home City of Record: Marshall MI
Date of Loss: 08 February 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 163158N 1064157E
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1E
Refno: 1043
Source: 
Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, 
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. 
Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 2007.
Other Personnel In Incident: none missing
SYNOPSIS: 
Maj. Robert Lapham won a Silver Star for one of the most important bombing attacks of the war. 
Despite heavy enemy ground fire, he successfully broke a heavy siege upon U.S. 
troops near the demilitarized zone (DMZ). He is believed to have died in the mission when the 
A1E Skyraider he was piloting apparently was hit and exploded with a half-load of bombs aboard. 
His plane apparently was hit by machinegun fire that had forced the three other planes he was 
leading to turn back. Neither Lapham's body nor wreckage of the aircraft was found. 
The Air Force described the mission as one of "extraordinary achievement".  
Robert Lapham's wife died five years after he went missing. 
She never knew for sure whether he died or just disappeared.

(Maj Lapham is second from the viewer's right on the front row)

 Welcome home Maj Lapham - may you find eternal peace and 
re-union with your loved ones...