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

The aircraft U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was in went down in September 1967.

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,

A Columbus man who was killed during the Vietnam War has now been accounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).