On May 4, 2017, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency identified the remains of Captain George Parker McKnight, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain McKnight joined the U.S. Air Force from Louisiana and was a member of the 309th Air Commando Squadron, 315th Air Commando Group. On December 11, 1965, he was the co-pilot of a C-123B Provider (tail number 56-4376, call sign "Snipe 67") that carried three other crew members and eighty-one South Vietnamese personnel on a transport mission from Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam, to Tuy Hoa Air Base. The Provider went down during its flight to Tuy Hoa. Search teams found its wreckage on December 23, 1965, but no signs of survivors or remains could be found at the time. In June of 1974, a local recovery team trekked to Snipe 67's crash site and recovered remains among the wreckage; however, none of these remains could be individually identified at the time. It was not until 2017 that extensive analysis and modern forensic techniques were able to identify Capt McKnight among the remains recovered after Snipe 67's loss.

Captain McKnight is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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