March 2001
Summary of news for the entire month.
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March 31, 2001 Bataan Death March Commemoration
About 3,000 trekkers will take part Sunday in the 13th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range ‹ a grueling tribute to the World War II soldiers who endured the real 1942 ordeal.
March 30, 2001 Second USAF F-25 Pilot Found
Searchers recovered a second body today near the wreckage of two U.S. Air Force F-15s that crashed on a Scottish mountain peak, police said.
March 29, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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March 29, 2001 NLF Update Line
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March 29, 2001 NLF - Jones Leaves 30 MAR 01 - Liotta Temp Head of DPMO
The League was informed today by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs Bob Jones that he would no longer be serving in his position, effective March 30th. Although the Bush Administration has not yet named a replacement, Jones' Deputy, Alan Liotta, will be serving temporarily as head the DOD POW/MIA office. The League looks forward to working closely with the Bush Administration to achieve our shared POW/MIA accounting objectives.
March 29, 2001 Slave Labor POWs
American servicemen forced into slave labor for Japanese companies during the Second World War should be allowed to pursue compensation in court from their former corporate captors, two U.S. congressman said.
March 29, 2001 Second F-15C Loss Site Located
Search and rescue teams located and identified the second missing U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle aircraft March 28 about 400 yards from the wreckage of the first aircraft on the summit of Ben Macdui in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland.
March 28, 2001 F-15C Wreckage Located
Search and rescue teams looking for two U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle aircraft, missing since March 26, have located the body of one pilot and the wreckage of one aircraft near Ben Macdui in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland.
March 27, 2001 Search For Two F-15s Resumes
The search resumed early Tuesday for two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jets that mysteriously disappeared without a trace over the mountains of Scotland. Rescuers were becoming increasingly pessimistic that the two pilots could have survived after reports of an explosion.
March 26, 2001 Two F-15s Missing
Two F-15C Eagles stationed here are confirmed missing during a routine training mission over Northern Scotland, RAF Lakenheath officials said.
March 26, 2001 New Radio Show - Bring Them Home Alive Hour
"Well, I've gone and done it again. Beginning Monday, at 8 AM Pacific Standard Time, I am hosting a one hour Internet Radio Program entitled the POW Bring Them Home alive Hour -There is a free down down load for listening at the location."
March 26, 2001 Korean War Ex-POW Story
As a prisoner of war, Jesse saw Japanese soldiers stab bayonets through the hearts of defenseless men during the infamous Bataan Death March. He saw American GIs forced to dig their own graves, then bayoneted and left to die. He saw his body turn skeletal, then bloated, infected with disease and constant hunger.
March 25, 2001 NIE 98 and A Critical Assessment Documents Available
Over the years the Defense Department has created and released the National Intelligence Estimates (NIE and S NIE). Immediately upon their release researchers, family members and activists have found glaring errors, omissions and outright fabrications... and made them public. In many instances the DoD has found it necessary to author a debunking document to attempt to counter the damage.
March 24, 2001 Peterson Considered For Governor
Pete Peterson, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, is being seriously courted by the state's top Democrats as they search for a candidate for governor.
March 23, 2001 Bill May Open Door For Slave Labor POWs
Rough diplomatic seas for the United States and Japan rose yesterday when two California congressmen said they will introduce legislation today to reopen the 50-year-old Treaty of Peace With Japan to demand that Japanese companies pay slave-labor compensation to former POWs.
March 21, 2001 More Good Guys
The Life Sciences Artifact Section mission evolved as a result of successful studies being performed upon equipment artifacts, that from 1988 had been returned to the Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory from sites of military action in South East Asia.
March 20, 2001 US POWs In Concentration Camps
One of the best kept secrets of World War II was the fact that US POWs were sent to concentration camps, not just POW camps. After liberation, the US treated them like pariahs, all to frequently claiming they were psychiatric cases and not ex-POWs.
March 19, 2001 Civil War POW
s proud as McCausland would remain of his "unsurrendered" status, he wasn't too proud to solicit an 1867 letter from Grant declaring that as a "paroled prisoner of war," McCausland should be exempt "from trial for acts done by him during the war.
March 19, 2001 WW II Remains
The remains of a young Melbourne flyer, Flying Officer Geoffrey Wells, was among those of four Australian airmen who died 57 years ago fighting the Japanese in New Guinea. The remains were in the wreckage of their Bristol Beaufort bomber, found on the ocean floor near Kawa Island, 80 kilometres west of PNG's Trobriand Group.
March 17, 2001 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
This Sunday we are fortunate to be able to bring you a "special line up" of guests. You are really going to like this show. Don't forget our news and views hour and please feel free to "call in".
March 16, 2001 NLF Update Line
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March 16, 2001 NLF Issue Update
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March 14, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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March 11, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
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March 10, 2001 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Denise Nichols :: Bill Matthes :: Jen Lavery
March 08, 2001 Pilot ID'd By French Magazine
A French newsmagazine said on Thursday it had identified a World War Two American pilot whose remains were found in north France last month as a veteran flyer who survived Pearl Harbor and shot down three Japanese planes.
March 08, 2001 Pursuit Status Categories - DPMO
What are the different pursuit status categories and how do they pertain to the accounting process?
March 05, 2001 States FINALLY Embrace POW-MIA Flag
The man's head is bowed in silhouette. Above is a guard tower; below are the words "You are not forgotten." And three decades after a former Army pilot first sketched the stark image to commemorate those missing in action from America's longest war, it has become an enduring emblem of Vietnam, a flag second in popularity only to Old Glory itself.
March 04, 2001 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Art Bernklau :: Ann Hart :: This series will feature family members, activists and experts on the cases where our missing men and women have been written off on the basis of little or no evidence.
March 01, 2001 Gulag Report Released
The accompanying text represents a compilation of reports which assert that US Servicemen were held in Soviet camps and prisons during the Cold War.
POW-MIA Issue Update April 2001