A Navy flyer’s remains return to Tennessee, 50 years after his disappearance
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George Larrimore
George Larrimore is a writer and the executive producer and host of Vietnam360, which airs on the Memphis Public Library's The Library Channel. He served in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam in 1967-68.
Lt. Richard 'Tito' Lannom’s remains were recovered on a rocky island off the coast of North Vietnam, through a joint project of Americans and Vietnamese, in which both sides try to heal wounds from the war that ended in 1975.
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