Eleanor Ardel Vietti | |
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Born | |
Disappeared | May 30, 1962 (aged 34) Vietnam |
Status | Missing for 62 years, 4 months and 22 days |
Occupation(s) | physician, missionary |
Employer | Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) |
Eleanor Ardel Vietti (November 5, 1927—disappeared May 30, 1962) was an American physician and missionary. She worked at the Buôn Ma Thuột leper colony where she was taken as a prisoner of war (POW) on May 30, 1962.[1] She was America’s first woman POW in Vietnam.[2] She is currently the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.[3][4]