Navy Chaplain W.L. Dike (r) leads the 3rd U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard) horse-drawn caisson as it carries the coffin of LT. CMDR. James T. Ruffin to the burial site at Arlington National Cemetery. Ruffin was listed as missing-in-action after failing to return from flying a mission off the coast of North Vietnam on Feb. 18, 1966

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Navy Chaplain W.L. Dike (r) leads the 3rd U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard) horse-drawn caisson as it carries the coffin of LT. CMDR. James T. Ruffin to the burial site at Arlington National Cemetery. Ruffin was listed as missing-in-action after failing to return from flying a mission off the coast of North Vietnam on Feb. 18, 1966

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Arlington

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Duane Heaton

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

09/07/1983

place

Location

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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https://catalog.archives.gov/

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