October 2003
Summary of news for the entire month.
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October 31, 2003 KW - CW MIA Remains Recovered
U.N. honor guards carry one of eight flag-draped caskets, believed to contain the remains of eight U.S. servicemen missing in action since the Korean War, out of a C-130 military transport plane at Yokota Air Base in the western suburbs of Tokyo, Tuesday night, Oct. 28, 2003. The caskets were flown Tuesday to Yokota from Pyongyang, North Korea.
October 31, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Ms. Jennie LeFevre :: Ms. Lynn O'Shea
October 31, 2003 SEA Jeremiah Denton Selected for Hall of Honor
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton of Mobile, a prisoner of war for seven years and seven months in Vietnam, will be inducted into the Alabama Military Hall of Honor during a ceremony Friday.
October 31, 2003 WW II Ex-POW Finished Interrupted Flight 60 Years On
MacDonald had been first pilot on a B-24 stationed in Italy during WWII who was shot down over Slovakia and became a prisoner of war. The plane he boarded for the short flight is the last flying B-24 in existence.
October 30, 2003 KW - CW Suspected Remains of US MIAs Recovered
Eight sets of remains believed to be that of U.S. soldiers missing in action from the Korean War have been flown from North Korea to Japan, military officials said.
October 27, 2003 NAF Bits 'n' Pieces
Monthly News Summary
October 26, 2003 KW - CW The Father She Never Met
When Sergeant Hector Danes was reported missing presumed dead in Korea, his wife clung on to the hope that he might still be alive.
October 26, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Ms. Diane Carson Evans :: Ms. Noonie Fortin
October 26, 2003 JPAC - Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
The new POW-MIA organization formed from CILHI amd JTFFA is JPAC
October 25, 2003 KW - CW - 7 US POWs from Korean War Seen in '96
On October 22, a North Korean asylum seeker, Kim Yong (53), a former executive of the North Korea Integrity Department, insisted that there are westerners held captive from the Korean War along with a Japanese woman in the North Korea political prisoner camp.
October 25, 2003 Ex-POWs Urged to Apply for Benefits
The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying to find thousands of former prisoners of war who have never claimed disability benefits.
October 25, 2003 DoD News Release
The four nations involved in accounting for Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War concluded a historic meeting in Bangkok Friday.
October 25, 2003 IRAQ M-16 From an Nasiriyah POW Found on Combatant
An Iraqi man whose death at a U.S. military camp is under investigation was caught with a gun from the ambushed Army unit that included American prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch, officials confirmed.
October 24, 2003 SEA Deepening the Search for MIAs
The United States and three Southeast Asian countries pledged on Friday to work together to search for remains of more than 1,800 missing American servicemen from the Vietnam War.
October 24, 2003 SEA Renewed Pledges to Search for POW-MIAs
The United States and three Southeast Asian countries pledged on Friday to work together to search for remains of more than 1,800 missing American servicemen from the Vietnam War.
October 24, 2003 SEA Four Party Talks End
The meeting represented the first time that all four nations have joined together in such talks since the end of the war in 1975. The U.S. works with each of the countries individually as specialists investigate MIA cases and excavate loss sites in an effort to recover and identify the remains of missing Americans.
October 24, 2003 SEA US Leads Historic Talks
The United States, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia on Friday concluded their first-ever joint talks on the search for Americans missing from the Vietnam War.
October 23, 2003 KW - CW Likely US Remains Found in North Korea
Remains believed to be those of American soldiers missing in action from the Korean War have been recovered at two sites in North Korea, military officials said yesterday.
October 23, 2003 KW - CW Several Sets of Remains Found
Several sets of remains recovered near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea are believed to be those of U.S. Army soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division who fought against Chinese forces in November and December 1950, the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command said in a news release.
October 23, 2003 IRAQ 2 Marines Charged in Death of Iraqi POW
Two Marines have been charged in the death of a POW who was a high-ranking Iraqi Baath party official captured with a weapon that belonged to the Army maintenance company ambushed outside Nasiriyah, Iraq, in March, Marine officials said.
October 22, 2003 SEA NLF Update
Family News Update
October 22, 2003 WW I/IRAQ WW I Era POW-MIA Honored in Iraq
Sergeant Stephen Flavin, who is on active service with 19 Mechanised Brigade, paid the special tribute 87 years after the death of Private John Perham. In the simple but moving ceremony, Sgt Flavin stood to attention and saluted his ancestor's final-resting place. His fallen forebear is buried at the An Nasiriya War Memorial in Basra, southern Iraq.
October 22, 2003 SEA Open Doors: Vietnam POWs 30 Years Later
The Naval Academy Museum is currently displaying "Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later," still photo essays of 30 former prisoners of war and what they're doing 30 years later.
October 20, 2003 SEA After 35 Years, Honors and Remembrances
About 50 members of a national motorcycle club dedicated to remembering imprisoned and missing troops led the funeral procession for a pararescueman whose helicopter was shot down over southeast Asia 35 years ago.
October 17, 2003 SEA The Bracelet
Air Force Sgt. James Locker, of Sidney, will finally be laid to rest on Saturday after being missing in action for 35 years from the Vietnam War.
October 13, 2003 KW - CW Book: The Edge of the Sword
Nine years later, this gallant and heroic war story of soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment that for four days in April 1951 held off three Chinese divisions whose objective was to invade Seoul, as well as Farrar-Hockley's account of his captivity, has recently been translated into Korean by Kim and published by the Association of Korean Journalists (AKJ).
October 13, 2003 KW - CW RFA Reports More Korean War Remains Found
Additional sets of remains believed to be those of American soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War have recently been unearthed in North Korea, a U.S.-based radio station reported Saturday.
October 12, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Mr. Jerry Mooney :: Ms. Mary Schantag
October 12, 2003 Pro Basketball Player Emblazons POW-MIA Logo on Shoe
Los Angeles Lakers power forward Karl Malone wears a new basketball shoe with the POW/MIA flag. Designed in the off-season, the shoe debuted in the Lakers' preseason game vs. the Golden State Warriors here Oct. 7.
October 11, 2003 WW II Black Thursday
The young American pilot, a farm boy from North Dakota, stared into the big black hole at the end of the German soldier's rifle and lost himself in it. "For you," the guard said in his native language, pointing his weapon between George Ott's eyes, "the war is over."
October 11, 2003 LEGIS H. RES 103 - Only 33 Co-Sponsors
House :: Establishing a Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.
October 11, 2003 Troops Remember POW-MIAs
When Dick Kennedy drove onto Sullivan Barracks on Sept. 19, he hoped to see his beloved POW/MIA banner flying on the community flagole below Old Glory. But base operations failed to notify military police to raise the black flag on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, one of six days during the year when itıs supposed to be put up.
October 10, 2003 WW II Palawan Massacre
lenn McDole lives to tell of the suffering he endured as a prisoner of war on the Philippine island of Palawan. But for those who didn't survive, he hopes a new historical marker will help tell their stories.
October 09, 2003 Website Upgrade Completed
October 09, 2003 WW II Former US POW Camp in China Becomes Historical Site
Singapore said on Wednesday it will demolish its historic Changi prison where Japanese held more than 70,000 prisoners during World War Two, including thousands of Britons, Australians and many more ethnic Chinese.
October 09, 2003 SEA After 35 Years, He's Home
Yeend's remains were identified about two months ago -- 35 years after he was listed as missing in action when his helicopter was shot down over Laos. He was a graduate of McGill Institute in Mobile and Auburn University.
October 08, 2003 WW II Former POW Prison to be Demolished
Changi, built by Singapore's former British colonial rulers, became one of Japan's most notorious prisoner of war camps when Singapore fell to Japan in 1942.
October 08, 2003 SEA MIA Identified, Coming Home
The body of Staff Sergeant Larry Holden is returning to American soil. Sgt. Holden gave his life fighting for America 35 years ago in Vietnam.
October 08, 2003 SEA Home After 35 Years
October 06, 2003 WW II Ex-POWs Turned Away By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court turned aside appeals from former American prisoners of war and others who claim they were forced to work for private Japanese companies as slave laborers during World War II.
October 06, 2003 CILHI & JTF-FA Reincarnated Into JPAC
The U. S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii and Joint Task Force- Full Accounting combined to form the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in a ceremony Oct. 1 at the new Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center here.
October 06, 2003 CILHI & JTF-FA Combined Into JPAC
Along with the activation ceremony, JPAC held its first remains repatriation ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base, Oct. 1, in which four sets of remains, believed to be those of American service members unaccounted from the Vietnam War, were brought back to be identified.
October 03, 2003 WW II Ex-POWs Speak and Teach
Besides serving in the military during World War II, the three men also share another similar experience. All three were captured during the war, and served time in German prison camps.
October 01, 2003 WW II Palawan Massacre Remembered
On Dec. 14, 1944, Eugene Nielsen and 149 other U.S. prisoners of war on the Philippine island of Palawan reported to work for their captors as usual - malnourished, plagued with injuries and illnesses and barely clothed, if clothed at all.
October 01, 2003 SEA Longtime MIA Identified
Air Force Capt. Richard C. Yeend Jr., whose remains were identified last month 35 years after he had been listed as missing in action when his helicopter was shot down over Laos, was buried in a private family ceremony in Mobile during the weekend, his brother, Tom Yeend, said.
POW-MIA Issue Update November 2003