GABRIEL, JAMES JR.

Name: James Gabriel, Jr.
Rank/Branch: E5/United States Army
Unit:
Date of Birth: 22 March 1938
Home City of Record: Honolulu HI
Date of Loss: 08 April 1962
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 155855 North 1080540 East
Status (in 1973): KIA Body recovered
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:  Wayne Marchand, remains recovered, Francis
Quinn, released, George Groom, released

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 (The book "Pacific Stars and Stripes, VIETNAM
Front Pages" published in 1986), interviews. May 1997

REMARKS: 0462 REMAINS RECOVERED

Synopsis:
Although the Combined Action Combat Casualty file list James Gabriel as
having died from a gunshot or small arms fire after serving 4 years in the
Army - there is much more to this story.....

The book "Pacific Stars and Stripes, VIETNAM Front Pages" published in 1986
states:

Five Star Edition
Wednesday, April 11, 1962
Vol. 18, No. 100

How U.S. SOldiers Died
Too wounded to Walk, 2 Are Slain by Guerillas
Da Nang, Republic of Vietnam (AP) -- Communist guerillas killed two captured
U.S. Army sergeants because they were too badly wounded to walk any farther,
the survivors of a jungle ambush reported Wednesday. The American's arms had
been bound behind them.

Vietnamese patrols and air forces were still searching the jungle area 45
miles east of the Laos frontier for two other American army sergeants who
were captured in the attack on a bivouac Sunday.

The U.S. Army identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Wayne E. Marchand
pf Plattsmouth, Neb., and SP5 James Gabriel of Honolulu.

The two missing men are SFC Francis Quinn of Niagra Falls, NY and Sgt.
George E. Groom of Stewartsvill, MO.

All four soldiers were members of an Army Special Forces unit which
specializes in anti-querilla warfare and were engaged in training a village
self-defense group.

Survivors told U.S. authorities the two slain Americans were seriously
wounded in the attack by Viet


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