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The Nation - News from Dec. 12, 1986

The remains of two U.S. Air Force officers killed during the Vietnam War and recovered earlier this year have been positively identified by the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, the Pentagon announced. Full military honors will be accorded the remains in a ceremony today at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. The men, who were reported lost over North Vietnam in 1966, were identified as Lt. Col. Arthur L. Warren, of Toledo, Ohio, and Maj. Richard L. Butt, of Norfolk, Va. The Pentagon said 2,422 Americans remain unaccounted for.

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