Vietnam
POW/MIA NAMES
All those noted as Prisoner of War, Missing in Action, Killed in Action/Body not Recovered, AWOL, PFOD, Remains Returned,
or Returned Alive.

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

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

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

History of the POW bracelet
 

When and how to
return a bracelet

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

Order a POW Bracelet
POW/MIA, remains returned or KIA

What to Do
Books, Movies, Newsletters

• Vietnam P.O.W. Capture Photographs

• The Evolution of the Museum

• Museum Visitors

• School Groups

• Museum Interior

• Museum Exterior

• 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

Hanoi Jane  
aka
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda and "100 Top Women of the Century"   

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

and  59

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."

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

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.

China
Those held by China 1952-1968
and
April 2-April 11, 2001

Divers to receive POW Medal, 30 years after hijacking

Rescue Attempt

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https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/wires/state-nation-world/americans-held-in-iran-waited-decades-for-relief-now-they-face-a-new-challenge/

Americans held in Iran waited decades for relief. Now they face a new challenge.

Iran
Captured, Held & Released by Iran in 2003

William  R. Higgins and http://ojc.org/higgins/
  Marine Col on mission for UN in Lebanon, was taken hostage on February 17, 1988. He was murdered sometime during the next couple years and declared dead July 6, 1990.  Honored by the Navy, the USS HIGGINS DDG 76 was named in his memory. Awarded POW Medal 2003.

ALAN GROSS
and Cuba - 2009

http://www.bringalanhome.org/

http://www.helpboblevinson.com/

03/23/17 - Family of FBI agent who vanished in Iran a decade ago is suing the country's authorities to get him back home 

• Investigators believe that Robert Levinson is still being held in Iran 10 years ... 

prisoners-released
01/16/2016

Marine vet held captive in Iran for
555 days - Tactical Life

 Mar 5, 2013  -- DETROIT ­ The family of a retired U.S. Marine detained in Iran on espionage charges is begging for his freedom a year after his death sentence was overturned .... Amir Hekmati

John Hartley Robertson

[THE IMPOSTER]

Neither DNA nor fingerprints
reportedly confirmed these claims.

RELEASED
11/01/2014

Sgt Tahmooressi USMC
and Mexico

the-case-sgt-andrew-tahmooressi

Hekmati renounces Iranian-Citizenship

....  Iranian authorities arrested him while he visited relatives there in  Aug 2011 - more than three years ago - and have held him ever since.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/tortured-us-marine-amir-hekmati-sues-iran-detention/story?id=39007079 
May 10, 2016

Austin Tice, who served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, was abducted in August 2012 in Darayya, a suburb of Damascus, three months after he entered the country, according to the U.S. government.    The status of Tice and other American hostages in Syria is unknown, ....

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, said to be in a coma, released from North Korea

Americans in North Korean prisons    RELEASED 05/09/18

The Washington Times reports that three Americans held in North Korean prisons are preparing for their release; The three Americans — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim — were released from a North Korean labor camp and sent to Pyongyang for medical treatment, the Financial Times reported. […]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45841276

Andrew Brunson: Turkey releases US pastor after two years  10/12/18

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6470063/Engaged-Chicago-humanitarian-28-killed-Syria-held-custody-three-years.html

Engaged Chicago humanitarian, 28, is killed in Syria after being held in custody for three years    12/07/18

A new report shows Layla Shwekani, 28, was killed in Syria in 2016. Shwekani, who was engaged, was detained in February 2016 and her family just learned her fate after a report was released Sunday....

02/09/19

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran confirmed Wednesday it is holding U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White at a prison in the country, making him the first American known to be detained under President Donald Trump's administration....

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6794575/Verdict-issued-against-US-Navy-veteran-held-Iran.html

0311/19

U.S. Navy veteran Michael White has been declared guilty of unknown crimes in Iran after he was taken captive back in July....

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

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.

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

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

You can learn more by going to the website, http://cynicalattitude.com/

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. 

 

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