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The National League of Families' POW/MIA flag; it was created in 1971 when the war was still in progress. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia was created by Sybil Stockdale, Evelyn Grubb and Mary Crowe as an originally small group of POW/MIA wives in Coronado, California, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1967.
POW bracelet. P.O.W. bracelet for serviceman missing since 1966. A POW bracelet (or POW/MIA bracelet) is a nickel-plated or copper commemorative bracelet engraved with the rank, name, and loss date of an American serviceman captured or missing during the Vietnam War. [1]
Surname, First name(s) Rank Service Unit Operation/Battle Name Location Circumstances of loss Recovery status January 14: Hickman, Vincent J: Captain: USAF: 1st Air Commando Squadron: South Vietnam, Đồng Nai Province: Navigator on B-26B #44-35566, shot down while conducting air strike [26] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 14 ...
Operation/Battle Name Location Circumstances of loss Recovery status January 1: Kirksey, Robert L: Private First Class: US Army: 46th Engineer Battalion: South Vietnam, Vũng Tàu: Drowned while swimming [2] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 2: MacLaughlin, Donald C: Lieutenant (LTJG) US Navy: VA-76, USS Enterprise: South Vietnam ...
November 13, 1982. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died ...
List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1966–67) List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1968–69) List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1972–75) Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
This article is a list of U.S. MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1968–69. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War.
Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire. They may have been killed , wounded , captured , executed , or deserted .