WOMACK, SAMMIE NORMAN

RIP May 13, 2014

Name: Sammie Norman Womack
Branch/Rank: UNITED STATES ARMY/E5
Unit:
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: FARMVILLE VA
Date of Loss: 08-October-66
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates:
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

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 and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020

REMARKS: 670223 RELEASED

Womach was a squad leader whose infantry unit was ambushed and decimated in
a firefight near Bien Hoa. The Communists attempted racial exploitation
because he was black.

ALIVE IN 96/RET SSGT/LIVES KY

No further information available at this time.

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Library of Congress files:

RVN: THREE U.S. PRISONERS CAPTURED/Three U.S. Prisoners Captured In Duc Hoa
District, Hau Nghia Province, SVN
Country: RVN

Name: Sammy Womack

Subjects: Captured; Long An Province; LS; Killed

Reel: 319

Page: 1-7

Type of Document: Miscellaneous

Date of Report: 68 10 10

Date of Information: 66 09 23

Category: Army Files

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Sammie N. Womack, 69, of Radcliff, passed away Tuesday, May 13, 2014,
at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.

Survivors include two sisters, Mary Cater of Lakewood, Ohio, and Danette
Felicia Womack of Portland, Maine. - See more at:

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