(Undated)– Governor Terry Branstad has ordered all flags in Iowa be flown at half-staff beginning at 5:00 p.m. Friday (June 29th) until 8:00 a.m. Monday (July 2nd) for Lt. Col. Dennis Eilers, originally of Tipton, Iowa.
Eilers and his crew went missing when his plane was shot down in Laos in 1965. Eilers was listed as missing in action, until his status was changed to killed in action in 1977.
In April of this year, after further investigation, officials positively identified the crash site when a tooth was found from a fellow crew member of Eilers’.
