U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ralph J. Chipman, of American Fork, has been accounted for 50 years after he went missing in the Vietnam War in 1972.
Around 8 p.m. on Dec. 27, 1972, Ralph Chipman and his co-pilot, Capt. Ronald Wayne Forrester, were flying a Grumman A-6A Intruder during a combat mission over northern Vietnam when the plane stopped radio communications and never returned to base.
Search and rescue teams couldn't find the pilots or the plane. Scot Chipman was just 4 years old, and his brother Matthew was around 18 months old.U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ralph J. Chipman fought in the Vietnam War in 1972. Chipman, of American Fork, has finally been accounted for after his plane crashed in Vietnam 50 years ago.
Since that time, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has been working to account for Ralph Chipman and other soldiers who were prisoners of war or went missing in action. Every year, the organization and its partners work with governments in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia toAfter analyzing flight data four years ago, the agency and its partnering organizations were able to find the right spot in the Quang Binh Province where the A-6A Intruder piloted by Ralph Chipman went down, Scot Chipman said.
Investigators conducted two excavations over the past few months and found Ralph Chipman's dog tag, some of his teeth and a fragment of Forrester's credit card with his name on it, according to Forrester's daughter, Karoni Forrester. They also found bone fragments that are still undergoing DNA analysis.
Ralph Chipman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the
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