VandenEykel, Martin Dahlberg II Army Chief warrant officer

Eykel Martin D. II Vanden from Wheaton, Illinois, DuPage county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: December 2, 1969
Death details: 

On February 22, 1990, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Chief Warrant Officer Martin Dahlberg Vanden Eykel, missing from the Vietnam War.

CWO Vanden Eykel joined the U.S. Army from Illinois and was a member of the 129th Aviation Company. On December 2, 1969, he was the aircraft commander of a UH-1B Iroquois on a fire support mission for a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The aircraft crashed during the mission, and CWO Vanden Eykel was killed in the incident. His remains could not be immediately recovered. In January 1989, the Vietnamese government repatriated a set of remains that forensic analysis identified as those of CWO Vanden Eykel.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency