NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A soldier from New Orleans who was killed during the Vietnam War has been accounted for.
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, 24-year-old U.S. Army Master Sgt. Donald P. Gervais was accounted for in May.
DPAA officials said Gervais was assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Calvary Regiment 1st Calvary Division in 1968. He was a door gunner on an OH-6A Cayuse helicopter during a reconnaissance mission over the A Shau Valley…