Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a fireball.

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A U.S. Air Force pilot from Columbus, Wisconsin, who was killed during the Vietnam War, is finally accounted for.

Downing’s name is recorded on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu,

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was reported killed in action in April 1978 after going missing in Vietnam in September 1967.