Decades of investigation yielded nothing until a recovery team in May and June 2024 discovered life support equipment, aircraft wreckage and bone tissue at a site in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of Staff Sgt. Anna Berber-Giddings of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion showing the Iraqi-made steel door meant to provide some blast protection to an unarmored Humvee in Iraq on Feb. 1, 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a young girl helping out her family by running errands, carrying a pan of cheese in her remote village just across the border from Pakistan in October 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a reader in Europe taking a moment to read about the second inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson on Jan. 21, 1965.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of a Marine launching a volley of paintball shots during a paintball game at Camp Hansen’s Paintball Range in Camp Hansen, Okinawa on Sept. 19, 2002.

Here is a photo of director David Lynch at a press conference in Tokyo, in town to promote his latest film “Dune,” based on Frank Herbert’s best-selling science fiction novel.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of Cpl. Randy Novak, an aircraft mechanic with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 checking the refueling cone on an F/A-18D Hornet in Peter J. Ganci Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, on June 11, 2002.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of Pfc. Mark Greene of the 699th Maintenance Company working on an armored door at the Camp Buehring “Mad Max” shop in Camp Buehring, Kuwait on Aug. 17, 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of Staff Sgt. Ron Ellis as he fast ropes in from an MH-60 helicopter during a Combat Search and Rescue exercise in Hohenfels, Germany, Mar. 31, 2004.

Here is a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of an American flag sitting in the cockpit of an Apache helicopter that Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sean Merrill checks on Feb. 28, 2008 in Balad, Iraq, before he leaves on a mission.

Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb. 28, 2002: Horse power is a common source of transportation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Here’s a photo from the Stars and Stripes archives of the aftermath of the 2009 the DODDS-Europe Division IV girls soccer championship game.

Vogelweh, Germany, July 27, 2001: Shaquille O’Neal, who played basketball at Fulda High School as a sophomore, signs a basketball for a young fan at the Vogelweh Powerzone.

Spangdahlem Air Base, Nov. 24, 2003: Carol Malackowski, wife of Lt. Col. Patrick Malackowski, waves her husband in as he pilots his A-10 Thunderbolt II to a Spangdahlem Air Base hangar.

A snowboarder kicks up a curtain of snow as he comes down the Tiefenbach glacier at Sölden, Austria, on Oct. 1, 2003.