The State - News from July 7, 1985

The remains of 13 U.S. servicemen killed in a 1972 plane crash in Laos will remain in an Oakland military depot until a U.S. judge hears one widow’s request to have the remains examined by a forensic pathologist. Ann Hart of Pensacola, Fla., maintained that officials may not have made positive identifications. The bodies were identified by the Army’s Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu. The remains were recovered by a joint U.S.-Laotian team and represent the largest group of missing servicemen returned since the Vietnam War ended 10 years ago, an Air Force spokesman said.