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POW/MIA
Prisoner Of War / Missing In Action
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There are 1,875 Americans missing or unaccounted
for from the Vietnam War, according to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command.
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OUR MIA/POW’s
belong here, at home, not in some God-forsaken place where
they despair of ever returning!

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Name: Jack Wolpe
Rank/Branch: E4/US Marine Corps
Unit: A Company, 3rd Recon Battalion, 3rd Marine
Division
Date of Birth: 15 January 1942
Home City of Record: Newburgh NY
Date of Loss: 03 August 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 160622N 1072247E (YC545820)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: CH46A
Other Personnel In Incident: Thomas A. Gopp; John B.
Nahan; James P. McGrath (all missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April
1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency
sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS: SURVIVS EXTRACT SAY DED - J |
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SYNOPSIS: In early August, 1967, a nine-man team from A
Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division began a night
reconnaissance patrol in the A Shau Valley that was spotted by a Montagnard
tribal woman and child, who alerted a nearby North Vietnamese unit.
North Vietnamese troops slowly surrounded the Marine
patrol and another that had joined it, trapping them for two days in hopes of
luring a helicopter rescue.
The following day (August 3), the first of two
helicopters arrived and loaded some men from the patrols, but was hit by a
bazooka shell and crashed during takeoff. The pilot was killed by small-arms
fire. The nine passengers were believed to have perished, but all of their
bodies could not be recovered because of hostile fire.
John Nahan and Jack Wolpe were passengers aboard the
aircraft. They were two of the A Company Reconnaissance patrol. Thomas Gopp was
crewchief of the helicopter. James McGrath was a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman
attached to H & S Company accompanying the Recon team. These four were
listed as Killed in Action, Body Not Recovered (KIA/BNR).
The men of the CH46A shot down on August 3, 1967 are
listed with honor among the missing because no remains were found. Their cases
seem quite clear. For others who are listed missing, resolution is not as
simple. Many were known to have survived their loss incident. Quite a few were
in radio contact with search teams and describing an advancing enemy. Some were
photographed or recorded in captivity. Others simply vanished without a trace.
Reports continue to mount that we abandoned hundreds of
Americans to the enemy when we left Southeast Asia. While the men aboard the
CH46 may not be among them, one can imagine their proud willingness to fly one
more mission to help bring them to freedom.
Dr. Phillip B. Hill (Grey Wolf), USMC 1953-1956, Korea
in 1953-54 POW/MIA Adoption Staff Operation Just Cause
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“Had the (Congress) . . . . . , instead of exercising a
manly confidence in their country, by whose confidence they had been so
peculiarly distinguished, and of pointing out a system capable, in their
judgment, of securing its happiness, taken the cold and sullen resolution of
disappointing its ardent hopes, of sacrificing substance to forms, of
committing the dearest interests of their country to the uncertainties of delay
and the hazard of events, let me ask the man who can raise his mind to one
elevated conception, who can awaken in his bosom one patriotic emotion, what
judgment ought to have been pronounced by the impartial world, by the friends
of mankind, by every virtuous citizen, on the conduct and character of this
assembly?”
---James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 40, published January 18,
1788.
Send a letter to
Congress
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