ATTENTION ALL WEBSURFERS!!!

Please click here to get information on H. Res. 103 (POW/MIA) Bill before the house right now. Please contact your congressman or congresswoman today through this link, and tell them that you support this bill, and you want them to do the same. Election time is coming up. Time to make them accountable. Servicemen like LCDR James R.Dennison, LTJG Terrence H. Hanley, and Chief Petty Officer Henry H. Herrin and their families are counting on you to make that phone call, fax, or email to the representatives of your state.

<> The above picture is of the USS Oriskany(CVA-34)

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Name: James Richard Dennison
Rank/Branch: 04/US Navy
Unit: Heavy Photographic Squadron 61, USS ORISKANY (CVA-34)
Date of Birth: 28th Feb. 1934
Home City of Record: Rochester, NY
Date of Loss: 01 Jan. 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 0174000N 1071000E (YE298544)
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 5
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: RA3B

Others in Incident: Henry H. Herrin; and Terrence H. Hanley (Missing)
Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from New York.

Name: LTJG Terrence H. Hanley
Rank/Branch: 02/US Navy
Unit
Heavy Photographic Squadron 61, USS ORISKANY (CVA-34)
Date of Birth: 16th March 1942
Home City of Record:Gardiner, ME
Date of Loss: 01 Jan. 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 0174000N 1071000E (YE298544)
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 5
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: RA3B
Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Maine.

Name: Henry H. Herrin Jr.
Rank/Branch: E7/US Navy
Unit: Heavy Photographic Squadron 61, USS ORISKANY (CVA-34)
Date of Birth: 18th March 1933
Home City of Record:West Springfield, MA
Date of Loss: 01 Jan. 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam/Over Water
Loss Coordinates: 0174000N 1071000E (YE298544)
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 5
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: RA3B
Click here for the PMSEA (Personnel Missing Southeast Asia) for a detailed report on those accounted for, still missing, and unaccounted for from Massachusetts.
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project, 01 April 1990 from one or more of the following: Raw data from the U.S. Government agency sources, Operation Just Cause, correspondence with POW/MIA Families, Published Sources, and interviews.

This is a picture of the aircraft that these 3 men are missing from.

REMARKS: LOST AT SEA
Please click on the "Home City of Record" to see who are ultimately responsible for the return of these servicemen.

SYNOPSIS:
The A-3 Skywarrior is a 3 person light bomber, reconnaisance, electronic warfare, or an aerial tanker. It all depends on the outfit, and the mission it is used for. The RA3B was a more powerful version of the original A3 and was specifically designed reconnaisance missions. Its armament included a pair of 20mm cannons in a remotely controlled tail turret.

These are the events leading up to these 3 men disapperance:
Pilot LCDR James R. Dennison, Co-Pilot LTJG Terrence H. Hanley, and Chief Petty Officer Henry H. Herrin, a photographer's mate.
These men was assigned a mission over North Vietnam. Their planned flight route was to fly from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Cubi Point, Philippines to their assigned target area, and then land at Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam for a refueling stop, and a return trip to the USS Oriskany.
The mission was for photoreconnaisance of enemy lines of communication to determine truck traffic.
The mission was flown under radio silence, but was closely monitored by airborne radar control aircraft.
Emergency Evacuation is accomplished by sliding down a chute in the bottom of the aircraft.
All crewmen were equipped with survival radios and survival kits containing flare pencils. The aircraft flew out about 20 miles and turned Southeast. No further contact was made with the aircraft.

Could have these 3 men been shot down by this SA-2 Guidline Missile used extensively in Vietnam????

Please click on picture to take you to a site on the Russian made Surface to Air Missiles like this one and AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) that were used in Vietnam, and in use today.

An intensive search and rescue operation was called in consisting of surface units, helicopter, and fixed wing aircraft. The search was called off due to negative results.
The area in which the aircraft was lost, was heavily traveled by aircraft, fishing boats, and coastal shipping.

All of these men were placed in Missing In Action status, which was maintained until after the war ended.

The crew of the RA-3B that was downed on that day in January of 1968 may not have survived, but, evidence continues to mount that some of them did, and are being currently held in Southeast Asia.

If these servicemen are just one of the hundreds of Americans experts now believe are still deceased in captivity in Southeast Asia, what are we doing to bring these servicemen's remains home? What did these servicemen think of us, and why did the American government leave these servicemen to die in captivity?? Is it because of greed, or maybe the "river of denial" ran like a stream, and covered over the truth as to these servicemen release from their hell on earth.

If you would like to write to families of these missing servicemen, the only way I know is to go to this website, and follow the directions on the website.

When you write the letters to the families, please make sure that you address it in reference to the missing serviceperson's family.

This is how I got in touch with Mrs. Lucy Sennett.
She is the wife of one of my missing servicemen Robert R. Sennett.
I can only imagine what these families like Mrs. Lucy Sennett have been through of not knowing.
This must be hell on earth for them.

Please, let's make their lives easier by taking the torch for them and finding out what happened to their family member, and not accepting anything but the truth, and not subjecting ourselves to the "Presumptive Finding of Death" finding.
As a person of this cause, I can honestly say, that those families expect nothing less. Let's NOT ACCEPT anything less.

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