On October 25, 1977, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Colonel Lawrence Herbert Golberg, missing from the Vietnam War.

Colonel Golberg joined the U.S. Air Force from Minnesota and was a member of the 55th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On August 8, 1966, he was the aircraft commander of an F-4C Phantom II that took part in an armed reconnaissance mission over enemy territory in Vietnam. Colonel Golberg's aircraft was damaged by anti-aircraft fire during the mission, forcing it out of formation. As U.S. investigators would learn after the war, both members of the Phantom's crew bailed out over Duong Hoa Village, where they were captured and killed. Immediate search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful in locating the aircraft or its crew. In 1977, the Vietnamese government returned remains that U.S. analysts identified as those of Col Golberg.

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

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