Vietnam
POW/MIA NAMES

All those noted as

• Prisoner of War

• Missing in Action

• Killed in Action/Body not Recovered

• AWOL

• PFOD

• Remains Returned

• Returned Alive

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History of the POW bracelet
 

When and how to return a bracelet

Remains Returned
Previously noted as POW, MIA, or KIA/BNR from Vietnam

For others, see bottom of page

LOVELETTERS
 from those who care - still wearing bracelets, decades after the losses during Vietnam

From a POW/MIA daughter, Diane Moore                      From a POW/MIA sister, Donna Elliot

Last Known Alive
The men and women listed have all been administratively declared dead despite the fact they were "last known alive" during Vietnam. 

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POW/MIA, remains returned or KIA

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
MISSING SINCE 1962

https://www.stripes.com/news/listing-on-vietnam-wall-sought-for-troops-killed-in-1962-plane-crash-1.migrated

Listing on Vietnam Wall sought for troops killed
in 1962 plane crash

http://www.tauntongazette.com/article/20121110/News/311109701

Family wants to see Mansfield soldier added
to Vietnam memorial

Washington Post, March 17, 1962

http://www.n6921c.com/Passengers.htm

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
March 16, 1962

Flight 739 had an eleven-member civilian crew, 93 jungle-trained Army Rangers who were highly trained electronics and communications specialists, and three members of the armed forces of Vietnam.  10 days after the crash, they were declared deceased.  No wreckage or remains were ever found.

https://fearoflanding.com/history/the-mystery-of-flying-tiger-line-flight-739/

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739
includes names

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620315-0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739

The POW Issue
Notes, quotes, links, statistics, information, media headlines - all wars

What to Do
Books, Movies, Newsletters

“Torture Experiences of Prisoners 
Held in North Vietnam ”
Dr Well's abstract for poster entitled 

19 NEW POW CASES

2006

The Copper-stained Skeleton 

by  Henry Mark Holzer 

A MUST READ

The Torturers - NVN
DIA -North Vietnamese Personnel  
associated with U.S. Prisoners of War

Wartime Live Sightings
Vietnam

and  59

Pilots in Pajamas
The transcript of the German propaganda film  with captured Vietnam POWs

Tourison Memos
22 July 1992
"Vietnamese reports about U.S. POWs not previously known by the Defense Department"

1 Aug 1992
"Individuals Reported Died in Captivity and not listed on Current DoD/Vessey/SSC priority lists."

• Vietnam P.O.W. Capture Photographs

• The Evolution of the Museum

• Museum Visitors

• School Groups

• Museum Interior

• Museum Exterior

http://mainemilitarymuseum.info/photos-and-videos/
Videos

• Hanoi March a/k/a Hanoi Parade

• Pilots in Pajamas Video Series - English subtitles

• POW Release Videos

• The Code – The tap code in Vietnam

• The White House Salutes Our Prisoners of War

• The Museum Documentary

• The Grand Re-opening

• May 5, 2012 Awards Ceremony

VIETNAM

John Hartley Robertson

[THE IMPOSTER]

Neither DNA nor fingerprints reportedly confirmed these claims.

Hanoi Jane  
aka
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda and "100 Top Women of the Century" 

A MUST read to stop the email hoax from 1999...

What's the difference between murder and massacre? 

USS Liberty ... 

USS Liberty Cover Up

Pueblo Incident
The history of those held Prisoner of War when the USS Pueblo was captured by the
North Korean's in 1968.

List of those held                                     The Butterfly Effect

...on 23 January 1968 – the USS Pueblo was seized in international waters by North Korean forces. It was only the second US Navy ship to be captured by enemy forces since the War of 1812 (the river gunboat USS Wake was captured by Japanese forces on 8 December 1941).  It remains on the roster of US Navy ships today....

From the desk of Billy Cox, Staff Writer for the Herald Tribune (Sarasota Florida).

Christmas 2018 - 50th Anniversary of the release of US Military personnel from the USS PUEBLO as told by former Prisoner of War, Rick Rogala, US Navy, SK-3, POW- 23 January 1968- 23 December 1968.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190106/uss-pueblo-survivor-presses-for-ships-release

Rick and many of his shipmates are still working hard today to get the
USS Pueblo return to the United States Navy.

POW CAMPS -  MAPS
maps courtesy
Geoff Liebrandt
Medical Media Dept
Cincinnati VA Medical Center

WWII Japanese POW Camps

WWII German POW Camps

Korean War POW Camps 

North Vietnamese POW Camps

MARK SWIDAN

Iran
Captured, Held & Released by Iran in 2003

William  R. Higgins
  Marine Col on mission for UN in Lebanon, was taken hostage on February 17, 1988.

Gulf War / OIF / OEF / Afghanistan
Media stories and bio links for those captured, missing, DUSTWUN, AWOL,
remains returned from a missing type status.

Sudan
2006 - "PAT 332" 

FBI Agent Robert Levinson 
Kidnapped in Iran in 2007

Sister-in-law of American businessman jailed for 53 years in 'dungeon' UAE prison is hand delivering letter to UAE Embassy pleading for his release - as he is 'weeks away' from death 

Air Force Manuel

16 October 1961

Intelligence Activities

MISSING IN ACTION --- KOREA

187 Air Force personnel
of the Korean conflict still "Unaccounted For" under the terms of the
Armistice Agreement.

The "official" biographies.

posted 03/13/2021

Kai Li

2018 - sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage....

AUSTIN TICE

Abducted in August 2012 in Darayya

Held since 2016

PAUL WHELAN
 ARRESTED 2018

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12415311/Antony-Blinken-Paul-Whelan-phone-call.html   08/16/2023
 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Paul Whelan in a phone call to 'keep the faith' as the Marine languishes in Russian military camp for four years on spying charges

HELD BY TALIBAN
 

Mark R. Frerichs
 Kidnapped in Afghanistan 2020

RELEASED 09/19/2022

Matthew Heath

Arrested Venezuela on 09/10/2020

RELEASED  02/11/2025

Detained 2021

EMID SHARGI

CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE 2021

Peter Clark

Arrested March 3, 2021 in Dubai

David Barnes

Sarah Krivanek

+ +

12/15/2023

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/14/navy-officer-jailed-japan-over-deadly-car-crash-transferred-us-custody-
his-family-says.htmlESRC=eb_231215.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20231215

A Navy Officer Jailed in Japan over a Deadly  Car Crash  Is Transferred to US Custody,
 His Family Says

01/12/2024

https://mynorthwest.com/3946408/navy-officer-whod-been-jailed-in-japan-over-deadly-crash-now-released-from-us-custody-family-says/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10906841/U-S-Navy-reservist-helps-secure-release-American-woman-held-captive-Taliban.html

U.S. Navy reservist helps secure release of American woman, 33, held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she traveled to the country to distribute humanitarian aid

07/2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12269163/Princeton-University-doctoral-student-abducted-radical-Iran-backed-militia-group.html   

   07/06/2023
Princeton University student Elizabeth Tsurkov, 36, who vanished three months ago during research trip to Baghdad is ALIVE and being held hostage by Iran-backed militia group...

Pvt. Travis King
07/18/2023

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/18/army-identifies-private-captured-north-korea-after-he-ran-acrossborder.htmlESRC=eb_230719.nl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb&utm_campaign=20230719

Pvt. Travis King: Everything We Know About the Soldier Who Ran into North Korea Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that Pvt. Travis King "willfully and without authorization" crossed the border. ...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12411017/North-Korea-confirms-soldier-Travis-King-defected-racial-discrimination-Army-seeking-refugee-status.html
 

North Korea finally confirms that AWOL US soldier Travis King IS in the country and claims he is a 'refugee escaping racism' - but fails to produce proof of life...

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Pvt. Travis King, Soldier Who Fled to North Korea, Faces Desertion and Child Pornography Charges    10/23/2023

Eyvin Hernandez
07/25/2023

https://www.foxnews.com/world/los-angeles-attorney-jailed-venezuela-faces-spy-allegations-us-government-pressured-act
 

Eyvin Hernandez was arrested after making a wrong turn and ending up near the Venezuelan side of the border with Colombia

Congressional lawmakers are calling for the return of a Los Angeles-based attorney who has been held in Venezuela for more than a year after making a wrong turn into the country and is now accused of being a spy. ....

REVEALED: American held hostage by the Taliban for 15 months is aid worker from New York - as extremist group demands 'unrealistic' swap for Osama bin Laden aide held in Gitmo 

11/14/2023

KILLED IN SUDAN

KILLED IN UKRAINE

Held hostage/Captured and released headlines
 

Remains Returned and Casualties:

WWII and Korea and Cold War

https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaOurMissing

SEARCH OUR MISSING

No longer noted by DPAA - but not forgotten.

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-database-1917-1920.html

Doughboy MIA Database 1917-1920

Presented here is a complete list of
all known US service personnel Missing in Action from the First World War.
The list is searchable in various ways. We encourage you to explore...

Memorial Day....

MORE

https://www.clintonherald.com/archives/mia-work-is-acutely-dysfunctional/article_f5a7d6a2-b652-5211-b1cf-69ac452d4954.html

AP IMPACT:  MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'
By ROBERT BURNS    Jul. 7 201310:22 AM EDT

     WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of  thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.
    
Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish, often duplicative and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the report says.....
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https://www.startribune.com/pentagon-orders-new-review-of-pow-mia-group-citing-concern-about-scathing-internal-report/214781861
 

Pentagon orders new review of POW-MIA group, citing concern about scathing internal report

 

By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer             July 9, 2013 at 5:00PM

The decision announced Tuesday follows The Associated Press's disclosure of an internal report that said the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command is "acutely ...

 

An American in the Basement: The Betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the Cover-up of His Death

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1937584208

The incredible story of denial, deceit, and deception that ultimately cost Navy pilot Captain Michael Scott Speicher his life is exposed in this military tell-all. Asserting that years of information has been intentionally kept from an American public, the book reveals that, contrary to reports, Speicher survived after he ejected from his stricken F/A-18 Hornet on the first night of the Persian Gulf War. Protected by a Bedouin tribal group, he evaded Saddam’s capture for nearly four years. In that time he was repeatedly promised by an American intelligence asset that a deal for his repatriation would be worked out but it never was. Speicher was left behind. After Saddam Hussein captured him, Speicher spent the next eight years in a secret Baghdad prison and being moved around in secret to avoid an American task force looking for him, and before he was killed after the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. Author Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former naval intelligence officer and a veteran investigator and author, presents her fascinating case after years of research.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=8J2hgM94Mt0

American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China and Russia by Washington's "Cynical Attitude"

released through Amazon on July 27, the 60^th anniversary of the Armistice of the Korean War.

https://books.google.com/books/about/American_Trophies.html?id=K79YngEACAAJ

https://www.amazon.com/American-Trophies-Surrendered-Washingtons-Attitude-ebook/dp/B00E5SR1KU

MILITARY RECORDS

Who can get records
 

POW CAMPS -  MAPS
maps courtesy
Geoff Liebrandt
Medical Media Dept
Cincinnati VA Medical Center

WWII Japanese POW Camps

WWII German POW Camps

Korean War POW Camps 

North Vietnamese POW Camps

The Archive:

Is he really an ex-POW?   
Did the serviceman from my P.O.W. bracelet come home?   
I have a term paper due on Vietnam and Korean POWs,  can you help? 
 What men from MY state are missing?

Answers to these questions and more can be found by leaving e-mail for the P.O.W. NETWORK. The NETWORK has "word search" capability for more than 70,000 off-line files and more than 3600 Vietnam POW/MIA biographies.  Information is available on POWs from WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Somalia and Yugoslavia. Your question is researched and answers or documents returned by e-mail. 

 

We have information on all Vietnam and Korea KIA's. There are NO biographies. Please provide name, date, town or state  that you would like information for. Many UNITS are unavailable  for Vietnam KIA's. Information will be provided by email.