CHARVET, PAUL CLAUDE

Remains Identified 05/13/2021

Name: Paul Claude Charvet
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O3
Unit:  Attack Squadron 215
Date of Birth: 27 May 1940
Home City of Record: GRAND VIEW WA
Date of Loss: 21 March 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 192299 North  1055600 East
Status (in 1973): Presumptive Finding of Death
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A1H #137516
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0628

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.   2023

REMARKS:

CACCF CRASH/PILOT


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https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/honoring-the-fallen/navy-pilot-charvet-accounted-for-from-vietnam-war

05/17/2021
 

Navy pilot Charvet accounted for from Vietnam War

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Paul C. Charvet, 26,
killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for March 1, 2021....

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https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZlbEAG

PRESS RELEASE | Jan. 13, 2022

Pilot Accounted For From Vietnam War (Charvet, P.)

 

WASHINGTON  –   The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Paul C.
Charvet, 26, of Grandview, Washington, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for March 1, 2021....

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https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/stories/2022/1/24/family-to-receive-missing-navy-pilot-remains

Family to receive remains of Gonzaga graduate, Navy pilot missing since 1967

 

 

 


January 24, 2022

 
Tom Miller, Gonzaga University News Service

SPOKANE, Wash. – The remains of a Gonzaga University graduate and Navy pilot who went missing during the
Vietnam War will be brought home to his family, including his 101-year-old mother, after 50-plus years.

The single-seat A-1H Skyraider piloted by U.S. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Paul Charvet, 26, of Grandview, Washington,
then a lieutenant, was part of a three-plane flight supporting a naval gunfire mission on March 21, 1967. It apparently
was shot down northeast of Hon Me Island near Thanh Hoa Province. On March 22, Radio Hanoi Broadcast reported
an American aircraft was shot down the day before, and Charvet’s plane was the only U.S. aircraft lost in that area March 21...


https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/grandview-man-missing-in-action-in-vietnam-for-more-than-50-years-will-be-buried/article_a399c1ac-c38d-11ed-96c3-ef4b9d21051b.html
 
On March 21, 1967, Charvet was assigned to Attack Squadron 215 aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard, according to a news release from the Defense POW/MIA ...

 

 

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZlbEAG

CDR PAUL CLAUDE CHARVET

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  • VIETNAM WAR
  • UNITED STATES NAVY
  • Accounted For  03/01/2021

 

On March 1, 2021, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Commander Paul Claude Charvet, missing from the Vietnam War.

Commander Charvet entered the U.S. Navy from Washington and served in Attack Squadron 215. On March 21, 1967, he held the rank of Lieutenant and piloted a single-seat A-1H Skyraider (bureau number 137516) as a member of a three-plane flight supporting a naval gunfire mission. During the mission, the USS Canberra requested that the flight perform reconnaissance near Hon Me Island. As the flight made a turn over Hon Me Island, visual contact with LT Charvet’s aircraft was lost. Attempts to contact LT Charvet by radio were unsuccessful, and search and rescue teams could not locate him or his Skyraider. Subsequent to the incident, and while carried in the status of missing in action, the U.S. Navy promoted LT Charvet to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. On December 2, 1977, his status was changed to "Presumed Killed in Action," and he was posthumously promoted to the rank of Commander. On September 24, 2020, representatives of the U.S. Government received human remains and material evidence from representatives of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Additional material evidence was received on the afternoon of October 15, 2020. These materials were accessioned into a DPAA Laboratory. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available establish the remains as those of CDR Charvet.


Commander Charvet is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.