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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.

I have Adopted a MIA/POW

OUR MIA/POW’s
belong here,
at home,
not in some
God-forsaken
place where they
despair of ever returning!











A National Disgrace













Created by Chuck *Doc* Stewart

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

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


“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.

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Etchings From The Wall - Canadian MIAs

Operation Black Flag

Remember Our POW/MIA's

Welcome to the Vietnam-era
POW/MIA Database

The Hanoi POW Camps by Joe Oliver

MIA Ring Homepage

A Family's Tribute to their Missing Hero
Captain Carl Jackson, USAF

Please Come for Me!

The Rose - Canadian MIA's
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