April 2001

Summary of news for the entire month.
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April 29, 2001 Korean War Accounting Report AvailableThe Effort To Account For U.S. Servicemen Missing From The Korean War - by DPMO is available as a text only document.

April 29, 2001 History
Mueller was notorious for signing the ``Bullet Order'' in March of 1944, which violated the Geneva Convention by authorizing German guards to shoot escaped prisoners of war. He also authorized the torture of the German officers involved in the July, 1944 putsch against Hitler.

April 28, 2001 Andersonville
Crew members of the USS Pueblo, denied prisoner-of-war status for years even though they were held captive by North Korea for 11 months in 1968, were to be honored at the National Prisoner of War Museum today.

April 27, 2001 Memorial Service Remarks
Soldiers of nations once divided, they were united in a common cause, and they were embarked on a mission of peace--to return lost warriors home to those who love them. Tragically, while these 16 pursued their humanitarian mission of reconciliation, their lives were cut short on a mountain veiled in mist.

April 27, 2001 DOD's Rededication to MIA Recovery EffortDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the example of the seven Americans and nine Vietnamese killed in a helicopter crash April 7 will serve to renew the commitment to further their work of accounting for missing Americans in Southeast Asia.

April 26, 2001 Directive From Japan
Japanese war ministry standing orders were clarified in an August 1944 directive that said in part: "In any case, the aim is to annihilate them all [white prisoners and civilian internees] and not to leave any traces." Only the abrupt, atomic end of World War II prevented this policy from being fully implemented.

April 26, 2001 Far, Far From Home
Fort Meade was a German POW camp for enlisted men only. But German U-boat captain Werner Henke was buried there too. April 25, 2001 Searches To Resume
Nien said Vietnam would continue to co-operate with the search for U.S. troops missing in action (MIA) during the Vietnam War, a controversial program Washington still describes as its highest priority in relations. Search efforts have been suspended since a helicopter carrying a joint search team crashed on April 7, killing seven Americans and nine Vietnamese.

April 25, 2001 The Remains of War
While most archaeological digs unearth the distant past, a U.S. government agency excavates much more recent remains: the American dead from six decades of wars. The Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii, (CILHI) was established by President Reagan in 1983 as a joint military/civilian unit of the U.S. Army. Its sole mission is searching for, recovering, and identifying missing servicemen from the battles of World War II, Korea, Indochina, and other conflicts.

April 25, 2001 Too Little, Too Late
A close mate of John Collins once told him the best way to put the stinging memories of the Burma railway behind him was to talk them through. It wasn't easy. How do you tell your loved ones that, on a good day, you were fed a cup of rice and some thin vegetable soup? How do you explain that your malnourished body could not fend off the beatings, the malaria, the beri-beri, dysentery and cholera?

April 25, 2001 ANZAC Day 2001
Australians held prisoners of war by the Japanese are likely to share in a $67 million compensation payout in the federal budget, but payments for other PoWs have been rejected. Any payment would recognise the "extreme deprivations" suffered by prisoners of the Japanese, which were more severe than those experienced by Australia's other 1600 surviving PoWs.

April 25, 2001 Memorial Service
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz will deliver remarks at a memorial service honoring seven U.S. servicemen and their nine Vietnamese colleagues who were killed April 7, 2001, when their helicopter crashed in Vietnam during a site survey for an upcoming mission to recover the remains of U.S. servicemen lost during the Vietnam War.

April 25, 2001 The Secret Hero
The war took place in Korea. The mission was to protect the freedom of a country. The tale is of one man's bravery and defiance of death to help democracy prevail. Hiroshi H. Miyamura, a Japanese American, survived the bullets and bloodshed of the battlefield only to brave 28 months as a prisoner of war.

April 24, 2001 New Books
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission.

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors.

April 23, 2001 USS Pueblo Crew Honored
Crew members of the USS Pueblo, denied prisoner-of-war status for years even though they were held captive by North Korea (news - web sites) for 11 months in 1968, will be honored at the National Prisoner of War Museum this week.

April 23, 2001 Manufactured Heroes - Outside Opinion
We appear so short of heroes these days that we manufacture them at every opportunity. The welcome for our Navy airmen after their 11-day detainment in China is the latest case, illustrating the lionization of anyone publicly displaying competence. Heroism requires two things: risk and choice.

April 22, 2001 Ex-POWs Receive Settlement
Australians held captive in war by the Japanese will get about $25,000 compensation each from the Federal Government. The Herald Sun understands the Government will announce a $67.5 million deal for 2700 Australian survivors of Japanese PoW camps.

April 22, 2001 Ex-POWs Lawsuit & Settlement Raymond Heimbuch's quiet life in a Sacramento suburb doesn't reveal his old wounds from a brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Neighbors can't see the 81-year-old's recurring nightmares or the scar under his hair where a camp guard's saber laid open his scalp long ago.

April 21, 2001DPMO Family Update Schedule 2001 Reminder
Jan 20 - Las Vegas, NV
Feb 24 - San Francisco, CA
Mar 17 - San Antonio, TX
Apr 21 - Cheyenne, WY
May 19 - Atlanta, GA
JUNE-JULY Annual Family Meetings - Washington, DC - Briefings TBA
Aug 18 - St. Paul, MN
Sept 15 - Providence, RI
Oct 20 - Orlando, FL
Nov 17 - Little Rock, AR

April 21, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
Summary of News

April 21, 2001 Wannabe POW Gets Slammed By Court
Saying a drug dealer committed a "fraud on the court," a judge Wednesday decided to resentence a Waukesha man whom he earlier had given a break because of the man's false claim that he had been a POW during the Vietnam War.

April 21, 2001 Being A POW IS Game To Next Generation
Codemasters has announced Prisoner of War, an action adventure game that has the player trying to escape POW camps. The game is played from a third person perspective and the emphasis will be on stealth and cunning.

April 20, 2001 Answers - Finally
Two women bound by the deaths of a five-man American helicopter crew 32 years ago in Vietnam plan to meet for the first time May 25 when their loved ones get military funerals.

April 19, 2001 Recovery Search in Vietnam Cancelled - More
A Hawaii-based mission to recover the remains of Americans missing in action during the Vietnam War has been canceled because of the April 7 helicopter crash that killed 16 doing preparation work for the task.

April 18, 2001 Recovery Search in Vietnam Cancelled
A joint U.S.-Vietnamese search for remains of Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War has been canceled as a result of an April 7 helicopter crash that killed seven Americans and nine Vietnamese. It is only the second time such a search mission was canceled since they began in 1985. The other was in November 1999, when a mission was canceled because of severe flooding in central Vietnam.

April 17, 2001 The USS Pueblo
The story seems vaguely familiar: A U.S. intelligence asset is seized under questionable circumstances by a foreign power. Its crew is removed and taken into custody. The secretary of state places it "in the category of an act of war" and the president orders the military to a heightened state of alert. Public opinion mounts for the government to "do something" as the two nations face off against each other.

April 17, 2001 US CINCPAC Remarks
Yesterday on this spot, 24 men and women returned to America with honor ­ and to joyful families. Today, 7 men return to America with honor ­ but to grieving families. Many young Americans face danger, suffer, and sometimes die. But these are Americašs sons and daughters who have volunteered to wear their nationšs uniform, and that distinguishes them somehow.

April 17, 2001 Memorial to Rocky Versace
The Alexandria City Council voted unanimously yesterday to erect a privately financed $250,000 memorial to Vietnam prisoner of war Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace, despite opposition to locating it in front of a busy recreation center.

April 17, 2001 Tonkin Gulf Commander Passes
Dempster McKee Jackson, 70, a retired Navy rear admiral who took part in what became one of the most important and controversial naval actions in U.S. history, died April 3 at Arlington Hospital after surgery for a heart ailment.

April 17, 2001 POWs and the Holocaust
The little-known story of American soldiers imprisoned and worked to death in Berga, Germany, during World War II has become something of an obsession for Charles Guggenheim.

April 17, 2001 Ex-POWs Remember
World War II veterans spoke about having no food, marching at gunpoint for 600 miles in unbearable cold and burying their own comrades killed by friendly fire.

April 17, 2001 Remains of War
While most archaeological digs unearth the distant past, a U.S. government agency excavates much more recent remains: the American dead from six decades of wars.

April 17, 2001 NLF Issue Update
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April 17, 2001 NLF Update Line
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April 17, 2001 Bring Them Home Alive Radio Braodcast Schedule
This next week, probably all three days, M-W at 8 AM PDT, the topic of the radio program will be the connection between TAILWIND and POWs. While I know this has been controversial in the past, I want to look at it from a new angle. The testimony of ADM Moorer in early 2000 made it clear that Russians held POWs in Laos.

April 17, 2001 Air Force News
The remains of seven U.S. servicemen who died in a Vietnamese MI-17 helicopter crash April 7 in Vietnam were honored here during a repatriation ceremony at 1:30 p.m. April 13.

April 17, 2001 More Good People
When it comes to paying respect to America's war dead, some Air Force reservists here do more than march in parades or place flowers at graves. Each second Sunday of the month, April through November, eight to 50 members of Air Force Reserve Command's 459th Airlift Wing turn out to wash the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington.

April 17, 2001 Other Opinions
Of all the indescribable losses inflicted in battle, the cruelest, most lasting to survivors may be the casualties known as missing in action, those souls who go off to war and never return, dead or alive. MIAs are presumed dead. But the lack of certainty leaves scabs, not scars, on the lives of wondering widows, widowers, parents, siblings and children.

April 17, 2001 Perot Again
The families of the 24 crew members were a jumble of emotion yesterday - relieved, restored, recouped - at the resolution of the EP-3 spy-plane standoff with China and the release of their loved ones.

April 12, 2001 Passover and Easter Message
Once again, thousands of miles away, news of captives and losses disturbs the relative peace and prosperity we here in the US enjoy each and every day. While we go about our lives someone, somewhere, is faced with the knock on the door, the telegram, the telephone call that will unalterably change their lives forever.

April 12, 2001 A Sad Homecoming
In a poignant echo of earlier services for long-lost soldiers, U.S. officials held a repatriation ceremony Friday for seven Americans killed last weekend while searching for the remains of Americans missing since the Vietnam War. ``All these men are heroes. They gave their lives for something they believed in,'' U.S. Ambassador Pete Peterson said.

April 12, 2001 Last VN POW Steps Down
Vice Adm. Joseph Mobley, the U.S. military's last Vietnam prisoner of war still on active duty, stepped down Thursday as commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Naval Air Force.

April 12, 2001 DPMO Weekly Update
Seven U.S. servicemen and nine Vietnamese were killed Saturday (Vietnam time) when a Vietnamese helicopter in which they were flying crashed in Quang Binh province. Statements and Condolences.

April 12, 2001 EP-3 Crew Released
An airliner carrying 24 crew members of a U.S. spy plane held for 12 days in China took off Thursday, ending a tense standoff after President Bush said the United States was ''very sorry'' for a Chinese pilot's death and the U.S. plane's landing without permission.

April 12, 2001 US CINCPAC Advisory
The remains of seven U.S. servicemen who died in a helicopter crash Saturday in Vietnam will be honored at an arrival ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Hickam Air Force Base.

April 12, 2001 Katyn Forest Commemoration
In April and May, 1940, in an area called the Katyn Forest, over four thousand Polish soldiers, army officers, intellectual leaders, prisoners of war , members of the intelligensia, and Polish civilians were executed by Soviet troops and the Soviet secret police on direct order from Joseph Stalin. An estimated 21,000 Polish citizens died in Katyn, Miednoye, and Kharkiv, as well as other areas. These horrendous crimes are commemorated as the Katyn Forest Massacre.

April 12, 2001 Bataan Death March Survivor Remembers
The Japanese attacked the Philippines the same time they bombed Pearl Harbor -- but they fought four months to subdue the American and native forces on the southeast Asian island nation. The prisoners of war were forced to walk from their stations on the Bataan peninsula to a prison camp at San Fernando -- as many as 75 miles away for some of the soldiers.

April 11, 2001 US CINCPAC Advisory - JTFFA Repatriation Ceremony
Prior to the remains being returned from Vietnam, a repatriation ceremony will be held at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, to honor the U.S. servicemen. At the repatriation ceremony, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Pete Peterson and the Commander of Joint Task Force-Full Accounting, Brig. Gen. Harry B. Axson Jr., will honor the Americans killed. The flag-draped transfer cases will then be placed aboard a U.S. C-17 by an honor guard consisting of personnel from all four U.S. military services for the trip back to the United States.

April 11, 2001 EP-3 Crew Release Imminent
Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said Wednesday that the detained crew of a U.S. spy plane were to be released, although he did not set a time, state media reported. The White House also announced they were to be released.

April 11, 2001 DOD News Briefing
EP-3 & Vietnam Crash Briefing

April 11, 2001 Phony POW Busted Before Judge
A judge who gave a drug dealer credit for his self-reported POW status in Vietnam has ordered the man back into court after prisoner-of-war groups said Monday the man was a fraud. "He lied to the judge; he lied to the attorney."

April 11, 2001 Opinions From The Other Side
Anguished Vietnamese have paid their respects to relatives killed when a helicopter searching for the remains of US servicemen missing from the Vietnam War crashed into a rocky hillside in central Quang Binh province. Hundreds of people gathered in an emotional ceremony at a Vietnamese air force base just outside Hanoi yesterday to mourn the loss of eight Vietnamese servicemen and a Foreign Ministry official who were killed last weekend when the aircraft struck the hillside in a ball of flame on Saturday afternoon.

April 11, 2001 The Mission Continues
The fatal crash of a helicopter mission to recover the bodies of U.S. servicemen missing since the Vietnam War is bringing new attention to the soldiers and civilians putting their lives on the line a quarter century after the war's end to bring home missing Americans.

April 11, 2001 Ribbons & Issues
Virtually every culture and society, has used ribbons in a show of allegiance or support, from black mourning bands and wreaths with bows used at funerals, to red, white and blue bunting in the French Revolution, to red ribbons worn in the 1970s to bring attention to POW-MIA issues.

April 10, 2001 Bring Them Home Alive Broadcast Schedule
TAILWIND and the POW tie in. If you think you know the story of TAILWIND - listen in for for a view of what seems to have happened - Sarin was used - probably - IT was NOT the SOG that used it - and apparently Russians and POWs were at the camp.

April 10, 2001 Vietnamese Embassy US - Address
Pain and loss knows no color, religion, border or language. Nine Vietnamese lost their lives in the search for American unaccounted-for personnel. Nine people with families and friends who must now carry on without them. Although 300,000 Vietnamese remain unaccounted-for from the Second Indochina war, these 9 people chose to assist the US in her search for answers and closure. Their sacrifice will be remembered.

April 09, 2001 US CINCPAC News Release - Identifications

April 09, 2001 US Air Force News Release - Identifications

April 09, 2001 US Army News Release - Identifications

April 09, 2001 Condolences From Vietnam
Embassy of Vietnam in the USA regrets to inform that: An MI17 helicopter carrying the Viet Nam-U.S. Joint Team Searching for Americans Missing in Action (MIA) from the War in Viet Nam crashed in central Quang Binh province's Thanh Trach commune on April 7. All the 16 people on board were dead. The victims included nine Vietnamese and seven Americans from the MIA office in Ha Noi.

April 09, 2001 Ambassador Pete Peterson Statement
The terrible helicopter accident last Saturday in Quang Binh province took the lives of nine Vietnamese and seven Americans. They were engaged in the continuing joint mission to account for those Americans who are still listed as missing in action. This mission is a cornerstone of U.S.-Vietnam relations, and our cooperation on MIA search and recovery has developed over the years into a true partnership.

April 09, 2001 AFPS Update On Recovery Team Loss
The helicopter crashed during a routine mission while preparing for a recovery operation involving unaccounted- for Americans lost during the Vietnam War, Army Lt. Col. Franklin Childress said during a press conference April 7 at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.

April 09, 2001 National Former POW Recognition Day
Let us take a moment to reflect on the sacrifice of these honored men and women. Let us rejoice that they returned. Let us pray for the safe return of those still in captivity.

April 09, 2001 EP-3 Crew - More Details on Loss
The US spy plane stranded on Hainan Island was forced to land by a Chinese fighter after requests to shoot it down were rejected by ground control, Chinese sources said yesterday.

April 08, 2001 Condolences From AII POW-MIA

April 08, 2001 US CINCPAC Briefing Transcript
Helicopter Accident in Vietnam Saturday, April 7, 2001

April 08, 2001 US CINCPAC Statement & JTF-FA Fact Sheet
Army Lt. Col. Franklin Childress (left), Joint Task Force - Full Accounting public affairs officer, addresses the media during a press conference here April 7. He discussed the accident involving a Russian-made Mi-17 commercial cargo helicopter carrying seven U.S. servicemembers and nine Vietnam nationals.

April 08, 2001 Weather Cited in Loss
Bad weather or technical problems could be to blame for a helicopter crash that killed 16 people, including seven U.S. military personnel, searching for Americans missing from the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese official said on Sunday.

April 08, 2001 DOD Statement on Recovery Team Loss
Americans are saddened by today's tragic loss of life of both U.S. and Vietnamese service personnel in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Those of us in the Department of Defense, and the families of our missing, are keenly aware of the dedication of both the American and Vietnamese team members who were, on this very day, searching for servicemen who have been missing in action since the end of the war.

April 08, 2001 Recovery Team Loss Summary
The Pentagon has confirmed that at least 16 people involved in the search for the wartime remains of US personnel in Vietnam have been killed in a helicopter crash.

April 07, 2001 Bush Statement on Recovery Team Loss
Today's loss is a terrible one for our Nation. Although not lost in a hostile act, like those for whom they search, they too have lived lives of great consequence, answering a calling of service to their fellow citizens.

April 07, 2001 MIA Recovery Team Members Killed in Air Crash
The Pentagon says there were no survivors in the crash of the MI-17, and seven of those aboard were US military personnel.

April 07, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
News Summary

April 06, 2001 Current Statistics - DOD
Statistics provided by the Defense POW/MIA Office

April 06, 2001 NLF Update Line
Family Update

April 06, 2001 DOD Briefing - EP-3
"...do you know whether the members of the crew of the airplane in Hainan Island have been either questioned or interrogated by the Chinese? And what are the guidelines for those crew members to respond to questions from the Chinese? What kind of information can they --"

April 05, 2001 EP-3 Statement
Statement of SECDEF Rumsfeld on EP-3 Crew

April 05, 2001 WW II Ex-POW Honored
Friend who saves vet's tales secures a new award

April 05, 2001 WW II Ex-POWs Share History
Ex-PoWs give students 'amazing' history lesson Beaumont teacher brings veterans and pupils together

April 05, 2001 China and Hostages
Richard Nixon had a sensitive item on his agenda as he began reaching out to China in the spring of 1971: the release of four Americans held by the communist government.

April 04, 2001 Shoot Downs & Legal Status
Despite U.S. government claims that the Chinese are breaking international law by entering the spy plane that made an emergency landing on their territory over the weekend and detaining its crew, the actual situation is more confused, according to international legal scholars Tuesday.

April 04, 2001 Another Casualty - Chinese Pilot Missing
The pilot, Navy Captain Wang Wei, of the Chinese fighter that crashed after colliding with a U.S. spy plane managed to parachute from his aircraft but has still not been found, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

April 04, 2001 President Bush Statement
White House Transcript of Remarks by the President Regarding Plane Held In China

April 04, 2001 DOD News Briefing Transcript
To the best of my knowledge, there is nobody that has certain knowledge of the activities around that plane. But again, there is no shortage of rumors about people who supposedly know.

April 04, 2001 Air Crew May Be Subject To Spy Trial
China hinted last night that it might put the crew of an American spy plane on trial as tension over the grounding and seizure of the aircraft grew. China refused to release the 24 crew, although US diplomats were allowed to see them for the first time yesterday.

April 03, 2001 National Former POW Day - April 9th
From our earliest beginnings as a Nation, America has been blessed with citizens who have been willing to fight and die to preserve our shared ideals.  We owe our freedom to men and women who have responded heroically to the call of patriotic duty.  In times of peace and war, in times of great conflict, and even in peacetime, they stood tall.  Facing the horrors of combat, young Americans placed themselves squarely in harm's way.

April 03, 2001 EP-3 Crew List
The aircraft flew out of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan on March 31. Chinese fighters flew out to challenge it while it was in international air space, the U.S. Navy said.. One of them bumped the four-engine signal intelligence plane, damaging it and forcing it to make the emergency landing.

April 03, 2001 USS Pueblo Plaque to be Installed at Andersonville
A plaque honoring Commander Bucher and the crew of the USS PUEBLO is being is being placed in the National POW museum in Andersonville Georgia.

April 03, 2001 Bush Statement on EP-3 Incident
Late Saturday night in Washington, Sunday morning in China, a United States naval maritime patrol aircraft on a routine surveillance mission in international airspace over the South China Sea collided with one of two Chinese fighters that were shadowing our plane. Both our aircraft and a Chinese aircraft were damaged in the collision. Our aircraft made an emergency landing at an airfield on China's Hainan Island.

April 03, 2001 WH Press Brieifing on EP-3
"..does the President have a reaction to the fact that the Chinese have apparently boarded the spy plane?"

April 03, 2001 American Ex-POWs News & Announcements
As of January 1, 2001 there were 46,417 POWs alive.The Japanese Imperial Army Disclosure Act became law as part of the Intelligence Appropriation Act for the Fiscal Year 2001. The declassification legislation was the first of its kind resulting from intense support by the Asian American community and veteran groups throughout the country for the last two years.

April 02, 2001 Bring Them Home Alive Broadcast Schedule

April 02, 2001 POWs as Slave Labor
Thousands of Russian, Polish and Yugoslav prisoners paid with their lives for that plan but Hitler's Great Polar Railroad was never built. Among the prisoners it was known as the "Blood Road".

April 02, 2001 CILHI Story
Anthropologists Are Bringing American Soldiers Home. While most archaeological digs unearth the distant past, a U.S. government agency excavates much more recent remains: the American dead from six decades of wars.

April 02, 2001 34 Year Mystery Answered
After 34 years of waiting, a family will hold a memorial service for missing Air Force pilot whose remains were found in Vietnam.

April 02, 2001 EP-3 Loss Briefing Transcript
Good morning, let me tell you what I know about this incident involving our aircraft in Hainan and I have a chart here that Išll be referring to. About 18 hours ago, when it was the middle of the morning China time, one of our surveillance aircraft was on a routine operation in the South China Sea. It was about 70 miles off the Chinese Island of Hainan in international airspace, and Išll show you the positions in a minute.

April 02, 2001 EP-3 VOA Summaries
A U-S Navy reconnaisance plane has been forced to land in southern China. following a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet. David McGuffin has this report from Beijing.

April 02, 2001 EP-3 News Summaries
US plane hit by Chinese fighter - TWENTY-FOUR American airmen had an amazing escape yesterday when their spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet.

April 01, 2001 US Ambassador Meets with China on EP-3 Crew
The U.S. ambassador to China met with the Chinese vice foreign minister in an attempt to resolve the situation of a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) plane that made an emergency landing after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet, a State Department spokeswoman said on Sunday.

April 01, 2001 US to China: Return Crew & Plane
The United States said on Sunday it expected Beijing to return a Navy surveillance plane and its 24-member crew that made an emergency landing in China after a collision with a Chinese fighter aircraft.

April 01, 2001 Navy EP-3 Forced Down in China with 24 Aboard
At approximately 8:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Saturday, March 31, (9:15 a.m. Sunday local time in China) in international waters, a U.S. Navy EP-3 maritime patrol aircraft on a routine surveillance mission over the South China Sea, was intercepted by two People's Republic of China fighter aircraft. There was contact between one of the Chinese aircraft and the EP-3, causing sufficient damage for the U.S. plane to issue a 'Mayday' signal and divert to an airfield on Hainan Island, PRC. No crewmembers are reported injured.

April 01, 2001 New POW Dissertation Available
Dr. Patricia Wadley has graciously provided AII POW-MIA with a stunning original research dissertation on WW II European Theater POWs. Beginnig with the Bolshevik coup during WW I, the dissertation reveals the genesis of adversarial intransigence and the ever-developing unofficial official policy of Communist/Socialist entities to exploit the allied POW-MIA situation to their own political, social and financial gain.

POW-MIA Issue Update May 2001