OF AMERICAN
PRISONERS AND MISSING IN
AMERICANS IDENTIFIED:
There are now 1,683
Americans listed
by the Defense POW/Missing
Personnel Office (DPMO) as missing and
unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War.
On August 29th,
DPMO posted the names of
Lt Col Edward D. Silver,
USAF, listed MIA in
Palmer’s remains were jointly recovered
on 11/17/09 and identified 5/19/11. Lt Col Silver’s
remains were
repatriated 6/26/98 and identified 5/31/11. DPMO also
recently posted the news
that Major Thomas E. Clark, USAF,
PA, listed as MIA in Laos on 2/8/69, and Major Bruce
E. Lawrence, USAF, NJ, listed as MIA in North Vietnam 7/5/68, are now
accounted-for.
Major Clark’s remains were jointly recovered on
11/16/05 and identified 6/3/11. Major
Lawrence’s remains were
recovered 6/26/98 and identified 6/3/11.
The number of
Americans returned and
identified since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 is
now
900; another 63
end of the war, bring the total to 961.
Of the 1,683 unreturned American veterans
from the Vietnam War, our
POW/MIAs, 90% were lost in Vietnam or in areas of
Laos and
Cambodia under Vietnam’s wartime control: Vietnam�1,292
(VN-473,
VS-819); Laos�326; 6; Cambodia�58; Peoples Republic of
China territorial waters�7;
over 450 were over-water losses.