Unit | 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division |
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Rank | Lance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps |
Entered Service From | Des Moines Iowa |
Date of Death | June 30 1967 |
Status | Recovered |
Memorialized |
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Honolulu Memorial |
The remains of Marine Corps Capt. John A. House, II; Lance Cpl. John D. Killen, III; and Cpl. Glyn L. Runnels, Jr., have been accounted for in 2017 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). House was assigned to HHM-265 Marine Aircraft Group 16, and Killen and Runnels were assigned to Company A, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, when their aircraft crashed in Vietnam, June 30, 1967. Two additional service members were previously identified from this crash, Marine Lance Cpl. Merlin R. Allen and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael B. Judd. Their remains were returned to their families for burial with full military honors. His name is permanently engraved in the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.