Korean War MIA Identified: The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has announced the recovery
and identification of Army Master Sgt. Roy E. Head of Clinchport, VA, who had been missing in
action since the Korean War. Head was assigned to Headquarters Company, 49th Field Artillery Battalion.
After the 1953 armistice, it was learned from surviving POWs that he had been captured in February 1951
and died of malnutrition a few months later in a North Korean POW camp. With this accounting, 8,025 service
members still remain missing from the Korean War. A DOD press release is at
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13583.
Nine Vietnam War MIAs Identified: The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office also announced that the remains of nine U.S. Air Force
airmen, missing in action since the Vietnam War, have been identified. They are Col. William H. Mason of Camden, AR; Lt. Col. Jerry L. Chambers
of Muskogee, OK; Majs. William T. McPhail of Chattanooga, TN, and Thomas B. Mitchell of Littleton, CO; Chief Master Sgts. John Q. Adam of Bethel, KS,
Calvin C. Glover of Steubenville, OH, Thomas E. Knebel of Midway, AR, and Melvin D. Rash of Yorktown, VA; and Senior Master Sgt.
Gary Pate of Brooks, GA. On May 22, 1968, they were crewing a C-130 Hercules on a nighttime flare mission over Laos. The crew of another
U.S. aircraft observed a large ground fire near the last known location of Mason's C-130. Search and rescue attempts were not initiated
due to heavy antiaircraft fire in the area. With this accounting, 1,719 Americans still remain missing from the Vietnam War.
A DOD press release is at
COMRADES, THE DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT VFW IS AN ALL-AMERICAN DEPARTMENT 100.03% AS OF 6/14/10 FOR THE YEAR 2009-2010!
THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE OF ALL OF OUR HARD WORK AT EVERY LEVEL FROM WITHIN OUR GREAT DEPARTMENT-CONGRATULATIONS
COMRADES.
