YOUNG, JOHN ARTHUR
| Name: John Arthur Young Branch/Rank: UNITED STATES ARMY/E4 Unit: Date of Birth: 9 September 1945 Home City of Record: CHICAGO IL Date of Loss: 31-January-68 Country of Loss: SOUTH VIETNAM Loss Coordinates: 170341 North 1064221 East Status (in 1973): Returnee Category: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Refno: |
 Official pre-capture photo |
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. Updated 2019 with information from Justin Jackson-Mann.
REMARKS: 730316 RELEASED BY PRG
MEMBER PEACE COMMITTEE ACCUSED COLLABORATION
No further information available at this time.
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Library of Congress Files:
RVN: Recorded Message From a Captured GI to His Buddies in South Vietnam
Country: RVN
Name: John Arthur Young
Subjects: PWC
Reel: 412
Volume: 29
Page: 41-51
Type of Document: Message
Date of Report: 69 10 29
Date of Information: 69 10 29
Document Number: 290326ZOCT69
Originator: FBIS Okinawa
Category: CIA Files
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NVN: POW [] Young Calls for Nixon's Defeat in Election (from Liberation
Radio)
Country: NVN
Name: John A. Young
Subjects: Peace Talks
Reel: 408
Volume: 25
Page: 100
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 72 02 28
Date of Information: 72 02 28
Category: CIA Files
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Laos: Refugee Report, Sighting of American POWs in VC POW Camp; Refugee
Report and Evaluation
Country: Laos
Name: John A. Young
Subjects: PW Camp; Live sighting
Comments: Former ARVN POW reports seeing four U.S. POWs at a VC camp in Laos
near the border with Quang Binh province, Vietnam in April 1972. Possible
correlation to four U.S. POWs captured in 1968.
Reel: 118
Source Number: 1111
Page: 86-88
Type of Document: Refugee Report
Date of Report: 81 10 29
Date of Information: 72 04 00
Document Number: T81-052
Originator: JCRC
Category: Source Reports
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RVN: Johnny Young Message [U.S. serviceman critical of U.S. government],
from Liberation Radio
Country: RVN
Name: Johnny Young
Subjects: Statement
Reel: 409
Volume: 50
Page: 88
Type of Document: Open Source
Date of Report: 00 00 00
Date of Information: 00 00 00
Category: CIA Files
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YOUNG, J/ Status of Missing Persons and Board of Inquiry
Name: John Arthur Young
Reel: 266
Page: 2-4
Type of Document: Message
Date of Report: 72 04 20
Date of Information: 72 00 00
Document Number: 200830ZApr72
Originator: CG TRWC LBN RVN
Category: Army Files