Data Sources - Air Force Manual No. 200-25A, Department of the Air Force, Washington, October 16, 1961 page 1. Sanitized copy. National Archives KOREAN Conflict Casualty File (KCCF) 1950-1954.
03/92 -- Korea, and the men yet to be accounted for -- the "official list" -- is a list of U.S. servicemen known to have been
held as prisoners of war by the red Chinese and North Koreans from the Korean War
but not released or accounted for by the communists, as released on May 27,
1957 at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on the Far East and Pacific by the Department
of Defense.
The lists, the printed minutes of the May 27, 1957 hearing and the
"sense of congress" resolution were subsequently buried in the
archives. The original list had 450 names compiled from American POWS who were
repatriated by the Reds, as well as from photographs released by the Reds, Chinese
radio propaganda broadcasts, and letters written home by captured men. The "revised" list was narrowed down in august of 1961 to 389 men, and
all were arbitrarily declared dead by the military services, the USG still
lists them as "unaccounted for".
Names and ranks only were released at the time, and printed in "The
Spotlight" on August 27, 1979, along with the above information and background.
Further information has been compiled by the P.O.W. Network from the Hawaii POW/MIA
Korean Memorial records, National Archives documentation, and public United
States Air Force documentation, and changes made to the original published
information. (FEBRUARY 1992)
Newman Golden is listed on the "HONOR ROLL OF FORGOTTEN AMERICANS" yet is noted as having died "while missing" by the National Archive.
03/12/2021
- KOREAN WAR
- UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
- Unaccounted For
First Lieutenant Newman Camay Golden, who joined the U.S. Air Force from California, was assigned to the 39th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing. On October 17, 1951, he was the pilot of an F-51D Mustang (tail number 44-74971, call sign "Mongoose Yoke") that departed Hoengsong Air Base, Wonju, South Korea, in a flight of four fighters on a close air support mission supporting United Nations Command (UNC) ground troops. The troops were in contact with enemy forces in a village north of the current Demilitarized Zone. As 1st Lt Golden was strafing enemy positions in the target area, he was hit by enemy ground fire. He soon radioed that he was hit and was going to bail out, and shortly after this transmission, others flying in the area spotted an F-51's burning wreckage southwest of the target area. After searching the area for several hours, there were no reported signs of 1st Lt Golden. No returning POWs mentioned contact with 1st Lt Golden, nor was he seen at any known holding point, interrogation center, hospital, or permanent POW camp, and he remains unaccounted-for. Today, First Lieutenant Golden is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual's case to be in the analytical category of Deferred.
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