FLORA, CARROLL E.

Name: Carroll E. Flora
Rank/Branch: United States Army/E6
Unit: DET 5 SFG
Date of Birth: 20 August 1941
Home City of Record: Brunswick MO
Date of Loss: 21 July 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates:   160330 North 1073700 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: CH47
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: None

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S.
Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
Synopsis is QUOTED directly from page 14 of Ben Schemmer's "THE RAID" by Avon.

REMARKS: 730305 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED

SYNOPSIS:

"Carroll Flora's wife was typical of those kept in limbo so long, not knowing if a husband was alive
or dead.  Sergeant First Class Carroll Flora became missing in action on July 21, 1967, during an
Army Special Forces night action.  For six years, his wife didn't know if he had been killed, captured,
or was still trying to evade capture in the jungles and hills of Laos.  She never received one letter from
him, or he from her.  On Saturday, January 29, 1973, 2,017 days after he was listed as MIA, the
North Vietnamese released his name in Paris as one of the prisoners who would be returned home. 
Flora was only one of 53 men released about whom North Vietnam had given out no information
whatsoever during  the entire time they were held prisoner."