Eleanor Ardel Vietti

Eleanor Ardel Vietti
Born(1927-11-05)November 5, 1927
DisappearedMay 30, 1962 (aged 34)
Vietnam
StatusMissing for 63 years and 17 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. She was America’s first woman POW in Vietnam. She is currently the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.