The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their secret mountaintop radar site was overrun by North Vietnamese commandos. The airmen, serving with Detachment 1, 1043rd Radar Evaluation Squadron, were among 19 men stationed atop a 5,600-foot peak in a tactical air navigation radar site known as Lima Site 85. “It was only 15 miles away from the border with North Vietnam and was surrounded by numerous communist troops. Despite the site’s secrecy, North Vietnam military leaders recognized within months that the radar complex was contributing greatly to devastating bombing runs over North Vietnam and Laos. On the night of March 10, 1968, commandos scaled the cliffs and overran LS 85, the article states.