On June 19, 1974, the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI) identified the remains of Colonel Erich Carl Engelhard, missing from the Vietnam War.
 
Colonel Engelhard entered the U.S. Air Force from Ohio and was a member of 9th Special Operations Squadron, 14th Special Operations Wing, 7th Air Force. On June 22, 1969, he was a crew member aboard an O-2B Skymaster (tail number unknown) that took off from Nha Trang Air Base, South Vietnam, on a reconnaissance mission over South Vietnam. While flying over a heavily wooded area, the plane went down, killing Col Engelhard and the other crew member. The crash site was not immediately located and the crew members' remains were not recovered at the time. In 1974, a joint team located the aircraft wreckage and recovered human remains and personal effects relating to the incident. Investigators were able to identify Col Engelhard among the remains.

Colonel Engelhard is memorialized on Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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