When Navy Reserve Commander Charles Bernard Goodwin climbed into the cockpit of a single-seat RF-8A Crusader, no one would have predicted that he would vanish only to reappear 54 years later. It was the early morning of Sept. 8, 1965. After takeoff, the plane ran into trouble in the air, and Goodwin disappeared without a trace.
More than 50 years after going missing at sea, the Vietnam veteran was finally returned to his family on home terrain and laid to rest in a public burial with full military honors.
