Eleanor Ardel Vietti

Eleanor Ardel Vietti
Born(1927-11-05)November 5, 1927
Fort Worth, Texas, US
DisappearedMay 30, 1962 (aged 34)
Vietnam
StatusMissing for 62 years, 4 months and 15 days
Occupation(s)physician, missionary
EmployerChristian 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]

  1. ^ "Bio, Vietti, Eleanor A." POW Network. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  2. ^ "Your Navy". Navy Times. May 28, 2024.
  3. ^ Fisher, Binnie (28 October 2001). "The last missing woman from the Vietnam War". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  4. ^ Lloyd, Alice B. (2017-05-29). "Fact Check: Why Are So Few Women's Names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall?". Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2018-01-04.