John Alden Malloch was 47 when he disappeared from Waterville, Maine, on September 26, 1965. Legally blind from injuries suffered at Pearl Harbor, he was a White man with brown hair and blue eyes, about 5 feet 10 inches and 182 pounds, who wore thick-lensed eyeglasses. That evening he reportedly stepped outside a residence to get some fresh air wearing a shirt, pants or slacks, and bedroom slippers and never returned.

Searches were conducted the next day and again later, with at least one account noting a search in spring 1966; an extensive search of the area reportedly turned up no sign of him. In 1972 he was declared legally dead so his estate could be settled, but he was never located. Decades later his family continued to remember him as a Pearl Harbor survivor and World War II veteran, and a grave marker was placed to honor his service.

Does anyone from Waterville or Robbinston remember John Malloch or have information about his movements in September 1965?