JACQUEZ, JUAN L.
Name: Juan Leo Jacquez
Branch/Rank: UNITED STATES ARMY/E4
Unit: 1 BN 10 CAV RGT
Date of Birth: 19 April 1947
Home City of Record: SANTA FE NM
Date of Loss: 11-May-69
Country of Loss: SOUTH VIETNAM
Loss Coordinates: 134805 North 1075213 East
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: ground
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Thomas Horio, Lenard Daugherty
Refno:
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2019
REMARKS: 730327 RELEASED BY PRG
RESIDES NEW MEXICO/ALIVE IN 96
No further information available at this time.
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A party 40 years in the making is about to happen in Santa Fe. It will commemorate the release
of a Santa Fe man who was a prisoner of war. He doesn't like to talk about it much. But today
he decided to share his story with KOB Eyewitness News 4.
"Three years, ten months and so many days- I just say 4 years."
Juan Jacquez was captured in South Vietnam on the Cambodian border. For Jacquez that's where
the nightmare got started. He bounced around a few POW camps before he was marched for days
from Cambodia to the Hanoi Hilton. Days that blurred from one to the next.....
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10/12/18
New Mexico man receives decades-old POW bracelet
He began to receive POW bracelets
with his name on them months after he ... She bought the
bracelet in her early teens, more than 40 years ago.
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