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The National League of Families' POW/MIA flag; it was created in 1971 when the war was still in progress. The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia was created by Sybil Stockdale, Evelyn Grubb and Mary Crowe as an originally small group of POW/MIA wives in Coronado, California, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1967.
South Vietnam, Cà Mau: B-26 #44-35703 hit by ground fire and crashed, bodies of two other crewmen recovered [21] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] October 29: Versace, Humbert R: Captain: US Army: Detachment A-23 5th Special Forces Group: South Vietnam, An Xuyen Province: Captured by Vietcong while leading a CIDG patrol. On 28 September ...
Pilot of an O-1D shot down on a visual reconnaissance mission. His observer SGT William B. Taylor was captured, subsequently escaped from a Viet Cong POW camp and was rescued by a US Army helicopter on 6 May [144] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] April 3: Mulleavey, Quinten E: Specialist: US Army: 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment
South Vietnam: Lost overboard [6] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] February 25: Morgan, William J: Major: US Army: Adviser, Military Region 1, CORDS: South Vietnam, Da Nang: Passenger on UH-1H #69-15391 that hit the fantail of USS John R. Craig and crashed into Da Nang Harbour [7] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] March 7: Howell ...
South Vietnam, Hậu Nghĩa Province: His A-1E crashed [21] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 29: Badolati, Frank N: Staff Sergeant: US Army: RT Roadrunner, Detachment B-52, 5th Special Forces Group: Operation Masher: South Vietnam, An Lão District, Bình Định Province: Killed during a reconnaissance patrol [22] Killed in ...
U.S.–Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs; Unclaimed (2013 film) United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs; List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1968–69)
Then-League President and POW wife Evelyn Grubb oversaw the development of the now-famous National League of Families' POW/MIA flag in January 1972. [5] [9] The original design for the flag was created by the artist Newt Heisley for Annin Flagmakers in 1971 after Mary Hoff, wife of MIA Lt. Commander Michael Hoff U.S.N., recognized the need for a symbol for American POW/MIAs.
The POW/MIA flag was created for the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and is officially recognized by the U.S. Congress in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, "as the symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoner ...