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

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

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

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

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
MISSING SINCE 1962

http://www.stripes.com/news/listing-on-vietnam-wall-
sought-for-troops-killed-in-1962-plane-crash-1.231996

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

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

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

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

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

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.

TWA FLIGHT 847
JUNE 1985

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. 

Sudan
2006 - "PAT 332" 

VIETNAM

John Hartley Robertson

[THE IMPOSTER]

Neither DNA nor fingerprints
reportedly confirmed these claims.

Kai Li

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

AUSTIN TICE

Abducted in August 2012 in Darayya

Siamak and Baquer NAZAMI

Held since 2016

PAUL WHELAN

 ARRESTED 2018

Mark R. Frerichs
 

 Kidnapped in Afghanistan 22020

Matthew Heath

Arrested Venezuela on 09/10/2020

EMID SHARGI

CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE 2021

Peter Clark

Arrested March 3, 2021 in Dubai

David Barnes

Sarah Krivanek

Olympic gold medalist
Brittney Griner

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10624303/Minnesota-mom-says-son-taken-prisoner-Russian-troops-Ukraine.html

RELEASED 03/26/22

Minnesota mother fears for her son after he's 'seized by Russian soldiers' while attempting to flee Ukraine - as he appears on Kremlin state TV saying he's got safe passage to Turkey...

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

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

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"

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.