FOR MY ADOPTED POW/MIA
February 93
from the following published sources
POW/MIA's - Report of the Select Committe on POW/MIA Affairs
United States Senate - January 13 1993.
"The Senate Select Committee staff has prepared case
summaries for the priority cases that the Administration
is now investigating. These provide the facts about each case,
describe the circumstances under which the individual
was lost, and detail the information learned since the
date of loss.
Information in the case summaries is
limited to information from casuality files, does not
include any judgments by Committee staff, and attempts
to relate essential facts. The Committee acknowledges
that POW/MIA's primary next-of-kin
know their family members'
cases in more comprehensive detail than summarized here and
recognizes the limitations that the report format
imposes on these summaries. Captured on the ground.
The Second aircraft in their flight with another two man crew,
Grant and Beekman, was also attacked by MIGs and shot
down over Vinh Phu Province.
The crews of both aircraft were declared missing in action."
crew of this aircraft.
It was later concluded that the reference to contact
with those in incident 1882 was incorrect and in fact
referred to contact on the ground with the aircrew of
those in incident 1881.
First Lieutenant Jackson was captured.He taught English to
Vietnamese prison system cadre in late 1972, and upon
his release from captivity during Operation Homecoming
stated he did not believe that
Lieutenant McCarty had been able to eject
from their aircraft.
Following the shoot down, a People's Army of Vietnam unit
radioed that the MIG-21 aircraft had downed two aircraft.
U.S. intelligence analysts later concluded that this report
correctly pertained to the shoot down of those involved in
incident 1882 on June 24th and the two crewmen from case 1882
also shot down on June 24th and captured on June.
On June 29, 1972, the Vietnam New Agency reported First
Lieutenant Jackson had been captured alive in Nghia Lo Province.
After Operation Homecoming he was declared killed in action,
body not recovered.
conducted a search of the crash site and recovered
a data plate confirmed to be from one of the F-4D's
jet engines associated with this loss incident.
In the spring of 1991, a U.S. resident turned over
a bone fragment and dog tag type information said to
come from a resident of Vietnam and pertaining to three
purported MIAs said to be associated with an incident on Doug
Dang District, Cao Bang Province,
and area bordering the
People's Republic of China.
One of the names was James L McCarty.
A July 5, 1991 DIA analysis concluded the report
was not true and "...part of a Vietnamese government managed
intelligence operation..."
investigation gained access to an apparent archival
document describing the shoot down of a U.S. aircraft
by the People's Airforce on June 24, 1972 in Phu Yen District, Nghia Lo Province military.
Charles Allen Jackson was idenified by name as captured
and and partial body parts were also found.
Material evidence of the air loss was recovered and
turned over to Nghia Lo Province military.
Lieutenant Jackson escaped from custody that night
but was recaptured in the morning.
pushing this issue inside the Beltway.
The need to get specific answers is more important not than
ever before.
If still alive, some MIAs are now in their 70's..
They don't have much time left.
We have to demand the answers from the bureaucrats and keep
standing on their neck (figuratively speaking)
until they get the message that
THEY work for US and that we are serious about getting
these long overdue responses.
Diplomatic consideration aside...We can no longer allow
questionable protocols established by pseudo-aristocratic
armchair strategists, to determine or influence the
fate of the men who were in the trenches while the diplomats
were sharing sherry and canapes and talking about "Their Plans"for the Future of SE Asia.
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