Jacobs, Harrison Chase

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)

 

Harrison Jacobs is listed on the "HONOR ROLL OF FORGOTTEN AMERICANS" yet is noted as having died "while missing" by the National Archive.
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03/12/2021

Service Member   1ST LT HARRISON CHASE JACOBS
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First Lieutenant Harrison Chase Jacobs, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New York, was a member of the 25th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Group. On December 27, 1950, he departed Taegu Air Base, South Korea, piloting an F-80C Shooting Star (tail number 49-546A) as the number four aircraft in a four-plane armed reconnaissance mission over the roads between Sinuiju and Sinanju. Flying south from Sinuiju, the formation passed over Kwaksan, and 1st Lt Jacobs made a rocket attack against enemy targets in the town. While pulling up from the attack run, 1st Lt Jacobs was attacked by several enemy MiG-15s. He was hit by enemy fire, and forced to leave the formation. About a minute later, he radioed that he was over water and was quickly losing fuel. He then reported that he was bailing out of the aircraft; this was the last contact made with 1st Lt Jacobs. Searches of the area found no sign of him or his aircraft. No returning POWs mentioned having contact with 1st Lt Jacobs, nor was he seen at any known holding point, interrogation center, hospital, or permanent POW camp. He has not been associated with any remains returned to U.S. custody after the conflict's ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, First Lieutenant Jacobs is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. 

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