GUILLERMIN, LOUIS FULDA
Remains ID - May 28, 2013
Name: Louis Fulda Guillermin
Rank/Branch: Major USAF
Unit:
Date of Birth: 06 January 1943
Home City of Record: Westchester PA
Loss Date: 30 April 1968
Country of Loss: Laos
Loss Coordinates: 165605N 1055925E
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: A26A
Refno: 1151
Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families,
published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 2013.
Other Personnel In Incident: Robert E. Pietsch (missing)
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Maj. Luis Guillermin and Lt.Colonel Robert Pietsch were flying an
A26A aircraft over Laos when their plane was downed in Savannakhet Province,
Laos. Their last known location was about 10 miles east of the city of Ban
Muong Sen.
The A26A was redesignated B-26 following World War II and then given its
original classification as an attack plane. After some resesigning for
counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was rechris-
tened A-26A. The aircraft could remain on station for a long time,
patiently searching ot and attacking an enemy concealed by jungle in night
or bad weather.
The fates of Guillermin and Pietsch are unknown. There are among nearly 600
Americans who disappeared in America's "secret war" in Laos who never
returned. There is ample reason to believe that the Vietnamese and/or the
Communist Lao know what happened to Guillermin and Pietsch on April 30,
1968.
There have been over 5000 reports given to the U.S. Government relating to
Americans held captive in Southeast Asia. The U.S. has, thus far, been
unable to find the formula to bring them home. One of them could be Louis
Guillermin.
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DOD
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Forty-five years ago, on April 30, 1968, Maj. Louis Fulda Guillermin
disappeared over
Laos while navigating an A-26A aircraft. Maj. Guillermin and his pilot, Lt.Col. Robert
Pietsch, went down in
Savannakhet Province, Laos—about ten miles east of the city
of Ban Muong Sen. They were declared Missing in Action in 1973.....
A
funeral service is planned for Saturday, October 5, with full
military honors at Collins
Funeral Home, 86 Pine Street, Oxford,
beginning at 9 o’clock. Afterward, Maj. Guillermin
will be buried
next to his parents at Glenwood Memorial Gardens in Broomall, Pa.
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Missing Airmen From Vietnam War Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced today that the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing
from the Vietnam War, have been accounted for and will be returned
to their families for burial with full military honors.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert E. Pietsch, 31, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Maj. Louis F. Guillermin, 25, of West Chester, Pa.,will be buried as a group Oct. 16, in a single casket representing the two servicemen at Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. Guillermin's individual remains weres buried Oct. 5, 2013, in Broomall, Pa. On April 30, 1968, Guillermin and Pietsch were on an armed-reconnaissance mission when their A-26A Invader aircraft crashed in Savannakhet Province, Laos. Witnesses saw an explosion on the ground and did not see any signs of survivors. Search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful, and Guillermin and Pietsch were listed as Missing in Action. In 1994, a joint U.S./Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR) team, lead by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), surveyed the crash site in Savannakhet Province, Laos. The team recovered human remains and evidence, but was unable to fully survey the site due to the presence of dangerous unexploded ordinance. In 2006, joint U.S./LPDR teams assisted by Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel cleared the site and gathered additional human remains and evidence, such as personal effects and crew-related equipment. The remains recovered were analyzed by scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory using circumstantial evidence and forensic analysis, such as mtDNA comparisons. Portions of the remains were individually identified as Guillermin through an mtDNA match from a hair sample from Guillermin's medical file. The rest of the remains recovered were not individually identified, but correspond to both Pietsch and Guillermin. There are more than 1,640 American service members still unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War. |
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01/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000oosBtEAI
On May 28, 2013, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC,
DPAA) identified the remains of Major Louis Fulda Guillermin,
missing from the Vietnam War.
Major Guillermin entered the U.S. Air Force from Pennsylvania
and was a member of the 609th Air Commando Squadron. On April
30, 1968, he was navigator aboard an A-26A Invader that carried
one other crew member on an armed-reconnaissance mission to
enemy targets in Laos. While over the Savannakhet Province, the
Invader was shot down by enemy fire, killing Maj Guillermin. His
remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1994, a joint
U.S./Laotian team surveyed the crash site and recovered human
remains but was unable to fully survey the site due to
unexploded ordnance. In 2006, explosive ordnance disposal
personnel cleared the site, and the team was able to gather
additional evidence. Modern forensic technology was eventually
able to identify Maj Guillermin among the remains recovered.
Major Guillermin is memorialized in 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.