Lt. Michael Blassie, a 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, ... A horse-drawn caisson bearing the Unknown Soldier moved slowly along Constitution Avenue on its way to Arlington Cemetery.

25 years ago the remains of an American soldier from the Vietnam War in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were identified as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens ...

America’s Unknown Soldier then crossed France to great fanfare before departing for home the next day ... but a quarter century later with the exhumation of First Lieutenant Michael Blassie.

Once buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie became the unknown service member from the ...

The Unknown Soldiers ... august company but was formally disinterred in 1998 after DNA testing determined them to belong to First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie. Lt.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: ... However, in 1998, DNA testing identified the remains as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. His body was exhumed, returned to his family, ...

Lt. Michael Blassie, a 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, learned to fly A-37s at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. When he took off from the American base in Bien Hoa that May morning ...

The remains of an unidentified American serviceman from the Vietnam War, buried beneath the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery 14 years ago, are no longer unknown. They have been ...

On May 14, 1998, the remains were exhumed and tested, revealing the “unknown” soldier to be Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. He had been shot down near An Loc, Vietnam, in 1972.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is at Arlington National Cemetery. It stands on the top of a hill overlooking Washington DC. Congress approved the burial of an unidentified World War I soldier in ...

Hundreds will honor the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on ... DNA testing identified the remains as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie. His body was exhumed ...