Crone v. United States

This suit challenges the validity of certain “official reports of death” and presumptive “findings of death” made by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, or their desig-nees, pursuant to the Missing Persons Act, ch. 166, 56 Stat. *503143 (1942), as amended, 37 U.S.C. §§551-57. Plaintiffs are the parents and spouses of seven American servicemen who were placed in missing-in-action (MIA) status during the Vietnam War and Who, since May 1970, have been the subjects of such determinations of death, although their remains have never been recovered.

We have jurisdiction of this suit…