Bio, Stamm, Ernest A.

Name: Ernest Albert Stamm
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/O5
Unit: Carrier Air Wing 14
Date of Birth: 18 July 1931
Home City of Record: MEDFORD OR
Date of Loss: 25 November 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 185800 North 1053000 East
Status (in 1973): Died in Captivity
Category: 1
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C #149293
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Richard Thum, remains returned 1977
Refno: 1328

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. 2020

Ernest Stamm was according to our government a prisoner of war in North
Vietnam. His status was listed as a category 1 even though the other man
in the plane was listed as a category 2. His capture date was Novemeber
25, 1968. They say he died 60 days later in 1969. On March 19, 1969, 60
days after his status was changed from Missing in action TO Prisoner of
War! He was declared dead through the Missing Service Personnel Act of
the early 40's on August 13, 1974. His family was awarded approximately
$300.00 in POW pay, for poor food and living condition while he was
held. YET if the pay was processed according to his military records,
they are owed amost $10,000. The fight here is not for the money, but
the Government made repeated contacts with the family up until the Peace
Accords, telling them that he was held a prisoner, and they were working
on it. On top of all else, after being declared dead on August 13, 1974,
his records show that his remains were retunned ON MARCH 13, 1974. Those
remains are STILL in dispute, as records and autopsy reports do not
match.

North Vietnam, pre-1975: POW/MIA Information (from Mrs. Cora Weiss)
Country: North Vietnam, pre-1975

Comments: The microfilm containing this document is located in the
Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Documentation Collection produced by the Library of
Congress Photoduplication Service (PDS). Shelf No. Microfilm (o)92/300
MicRR.

post-1975 Vietnam: Evaluation of JTFFA Rpt VN95-003A: Aircraft incident in
Vinh Thanh village, Yen Thanh District, Nghe An Province, 1967-68
Country: post-1975 Vietnam

CAPT ERNEST ALBERT STAMM

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Conflict
Service
Status
Date of Accounting

VIETNAM WAR
UNITED STATES NAVY
Accounted For
04/17/1974

On April 17, 1974, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Ernest Albert Stamm, missing from the Vietnam War.

Captain Stamm entered the U.S. Navy from Ohio and served with Carrier Air Wing 14. On November 25, 1968, he piloted an RA-5C (bureau number 149293, call sign "Old Kentucky 113") that launched from the USS Constellation (CVA-64) on a reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed. Captain Stamm ejected from the aircraft and parachuted to the ground, but was taken captive; he died at some point afterwards and his remains could not recovered at the time. In 1974, the Vietnamese government repatriated human remains correlating to this incident and U.S. investigators were able to identify CAPT Stamm from those remains.

Captain Stamm is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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CAPT ERNEST ALBERT STAMM

Unit
Historical Country of Loss
North Vietnam
Current Country of Loss
VIETNAM
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