POW/MIA Issues
POW/MIA Issues

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Published: 1994

Total Pages: 182

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The Department of Defense sponsored two related projects, the first provided funding for a six-month study focusing on American prisoner of funding for a six-month study focusing on American prisoner of war/missing-in-action (POW/MIA) issues from the Korean War. A second project expanded the scope and provided additional resources for research into whether American servicemen and civilians were transported to the territory of the Soviet Union or its allies during World War II, the early Cold War, as well as the original subject, the Korean War. The purpose of this study is to provide documentation from archive sources on the possible fate of unrepatriated U.S. POW/MIAs and to provide documentation of U.S. governmental efforts to obtain information on these individuals and their repatriation. An undetermined number of American POWs liberated by Soviet forces during World War II from Nazi Germany POW camps were not repatriated to the United States or otherwise accounted for by Soviet authorities. Information from Soviet archives indicates that Soviet Authorities deliberately misled U.S. officials concerning the fate of American POWs. The U.S. government made extensive efforts to locate and recover the remains of American buried in USSR territory. This report contains an update on the status of these graves. This report identifies 40. U.S. aircraft shot down by Soviet bloc forces during the early Cold War era.

POW/MIA Issues: World War II and the early Cold War
POW/MIA Issues: World War II and the early Cold War

Author: Paul M. Cole

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 196

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This volume addresses three issues: whether American servicemen liberated by Soviet forces from Nazi German POW camps in the European theater of operations in World War II were not repatriated, whether American aircrews in the Far East and European theaters were detained in USSR territory, and early Cold War incidents are examined to determine whether archive materials indicated that American servicemen and civilians were held alive in USSR territory.

POW/MIA Issues: Appendixes
POW/MIA Issues: Appendixes

Author: Paul M. Cole

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 312

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This report was prepared as a part of the project "The POW/MIA Issue in U.S.-North Korean Relations." The report consists of three volumes. This volume addresses American prisoners of war (POW) and missing in action (MIA) cases who were not repatriated following the Korean War, with particular emphasis on whether any American servicemen were transferred to USSR territory during the war. The author finds evidence that Americans were in fact transferred to the USSR from the Korean War zone of combat operations. The tentative identity of one individual is presented, as is an estimate that approximately 50 American POW/MIAs were transferred to Soviet territory. The report looks at evidence that Americans were transported to and retained in the People's Republic of China, concluding that with the exception of highly publicized cases that eventually led to repatriation, American servicemen were not retained in China following the war. The report also discusses the location of American remains in North Korean territory and suggests policy measures that could improve the chances of their recovery and repatriation. It concludes with recommendations for a U.S. policy toward recovering remains from North Korea. The central elements of this strategy derive from the requirement to retrieve additional identification media from North Korea. The proposed change in U.S. policy shifts priority to methods of recovering remains that will increase the possibility that remains can be confidently associated with Americans who did not return from the Korean War.

You Are Not Forgotten
You Are Not Forgotten

Author: Bryan Bender

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2014-05-20

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307946460

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In 1944 Major Marion “Ryan” McCown Jr., an earnest young Marine Corps pilot, came under attack by enemy fire and went down with his plane, lost to the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Some sixty years later, Major George Eyster V would find himself in the same sweltering and nearly impenetrable rain forest searching for evidence of MIAs. Coming from a long line of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War, army service was Eyster’s family legacy. After a disillusioning tour of duty in Iraq and almost ending his army career, he accepts a posting to JPAC instead, an elite division whose sole mission is to bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. While Eyster’s search for McCown proves difficult, what emerges at the end of the unforgettable mission is an inspiring true tale of loss and redemption.

Prisoners of Hope
Prisoners of Hope

Author: Susan Katz Keating

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 328

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Author asserts that the hopes of loved ones are kept alive by those who would exploit their sorrow.

M.I.A., Or, Mythmaking in America
M.I.A., Or, Mythmaking in America

Author: Howard Bruce Franklin

Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 248

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Almost two decades after the Vietnam War, most Americans remain convinced that U.S. prisoners are still being held captive in Southeast Asia, and many even accuse the government of concealing their existence. But as H. Bruce Franklin demonstrates in his startling investigation, there is no plausible basis for the belief in live POWs. Through scrupulous research, he shows for the first time how this illusion was fabricated and then converted into a powerful myth. Franklin reveals that in 1969 the Nixon administration, aided by militant pro-war forces, manufactured the POW/MIA issue to deflect attention from American atrocities in Vietnam, to undermine the burgeoning anti-war movement, and to stymie the Paris peace talks, resulting in the prolongation of the Vietnam War for another four years. Successive administrations, in an effort to mobilize public support for their continued economic and political warfare against Vietnam, asserted the possibility of live POWs at great emotional cost to both family members of the missing and countless Americans distressed about the fate of those supposedly left behind in Indochina. Born of political expediency, the POW/MIA issue was transformed in the 1980s into a potent myth. American culture was transfigured as movies and novels designed to reimage the Vietnam War turned the imagined post-war POWs into crucial symbols of betrayed American manhood and honor. Finally the myth began to turn against its creators when many Americans became convinced that the government itself was conspiring to betray the missing men. As he traces the evolution of the POW/MIA myth, Franklin not only exposes it as an elaborate hoax at the highest levels of government, butalso explains why the myth has penetrated to the heart of American life. By confronting the "true tragedy of the missing in Vietnam", Franklin helps us to understand how to heal the terrible psychological and spiritual wounds of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies

Author: Howard Bruce Franklin

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

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Written by a cultural historian, this text offers a wide-ranging exploration of the causes, meaning and continuing significance of the American war in Vietnam, arguing that the war was not a mistake, or a quagmire but a defining event in global history.