The Don Englebreston Collection

Newspaper Page: 'The MISSING Piece' — Col. Wayne Benjamin Wolfkeil, A-1H Skyraider Lost in Laos, 9 August 1968 (Northwest Florida Daily News)

Newspaper Page: 'The MISSING Piece' — Col. Wayne Benjamin Wolfkeil, A-1H Skyraider Lost in Laos, 9 August 1968 (Northwest Florida Daily News)

Newspaper page, Northwest Florida Daily News, from the three-part series 'The MISSING Piece.' The feature recounts the loss of USAF Col. Wayne Benjamin Wolfkeil, whose A-1H Skyraider struck a Laotian mountainside on 9 August 1968. Declared Missing in Action, the 36-year-old father of four was not reclassified as Killed in Action until 1979 — eleven years his widow spent seeking proof he was alive. The accompanying squadron photograph shows Wolfkeil at left, cigar in his teeth, among fellow airmen on the flight line. Nearly 2,000 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. From the Don Dineen (6th Special Operations Squadron) material in the collection of Donald L. Engebretsen. Project: 218852