August 2003

Summary of news for the entire month.
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August 31, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio
News and Views :: Mr. Bert Schlossberg and Mr. Ben Torrey

August 31, 2003 POW-MIA Documentary
History Channel the show MIA: Solved will premier. It is a documentary that was completed on CILHI and two of the cases it worked. The show goes through the recovery missions for the Makin Raiders and the identification process that led to the Marines going home. The other case highlighted is Thomas Hembree, WWII Pearl Harbor unknown identified in 2001 and buried last year.

August 30, 2003 WW II - Lost Airman's Fuselage Found, Airman Still Missing
He was a Leicester airman who bravely tried to guide his RAF crew to safety when their bomber was shot down over Holland. But the body of wireless operator Sgt William Robery Louth was never found among the wreckage of the Halifax that crashed in a field 10 miles from Amsterdam.

August 30, 2003 POW Experience Exhibit
This weekend is your last chance to see the two exhibitions currently on display at the Shepparton Art Gallery, The Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War and Faces of Eve.

August 30, 2003 WW II - Ex-POW Returns to Camp 60 Years Later
As a 19-year-old prisoner of war during World War II, Kleinmanns¹ Wisconsin Rapids experience consisted of sleeping on a cot in a hangar at the POW camp at the local airport and working at the Gaynor Cranberry Co., marsh in Nekoosa. Yet Kleinmanns holds no bitter feelings of his time in the POW camp.

August 30, 2003 From the Archives
Time has stooped Vladimir Trotsenko's shoulders, but his memories are as clear as his cobalt blue eyes: the American flyer, his right arm in a new cast, in a Soviet military hospital ward. The American, he recalled, would slowly re peat, "America -- San Francisco, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago."

August 29, 2003 SEA - Pilot Finally Home
s an 8-year-old in 1967, Cheri Hammer clung to hope that her father, a Navy pilot, had survived being shot down over North Vietnam and would come back home. As an adult, Hammer accepted that her father had died. But she still wanted him home.

August 29, 2003 KW - CW - Korea Never Forgot Her Liberators
It's been called the Forgotten War, but Art Slicer of Bethany has a simple message he wants to share with fellow war veterans: The South Koreans never forgot the soldiers who liberated their country. "We are not forgotten," he said.

August 29, 2003 GWOT - al Qaeda POW Status Questioned
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, saying the war on terror was far from over, rejected a fresh plea on Friday to give prisoner of war status to alleged al Qaeda fighters held at a U.S. naval base in Cuba.

August 28, 2003 WW II - Lost Watch Follows Ex-POW Home After 60 Years
James Hoel lost the watch as his Marauder bomber ditched in a Dutch river. He then spent two years in a prisoner of war camp while his watch began a remarkable journey which would see it surface in Suffolk.

August 28, 2003 IRAQ - EPW Abuse Hearing Scheduled
The US military has opened a hearing in Iraq into allegations that four American soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners. The four accused are US Army reservists. The incident under investigation is alleged to have occurred while the prisoners were being transported to a prisoner of war camp in the southern port city of Umm Qasar.

August 28, 2003 WW II - POW Rescue - The Musical
Maurice Braswell's harrowing experiences in World War II as a B-17 tail gunner and a prisoner of war are full of drama, the scope of which his son had no real inkling of until two years ago.

August 28, 2003 IRAQ - Lynch Medically Discharged
Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war who became a national hero when special forces rescued her from an Iraqi hospital, has been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, her lawyer said Wednesday.

August 27, 2003 Ex-POW Legislation
"Over two years ago, two of my constituents who were POWs during World War II in the Pacific Theater approached me about awards they felt they should have received," he said. "The Japanese had imprisoned each of the men, one of whom was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. These men were beaten, tortured and starved - one weighed 70 pounds when he was liberated."

August 27, 2003 SEA - Only MIA Coast Guardian Returns Home
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jack Rittichier took the long way home from the Vietnam War. Unlike most of his comrades from that war, the Barberton native is coming home to a hero's welcome. Unfortunately, he's not alive to witness it. Yet, his family is at peace that the journey is finally over.

August 26, 2003 DPMO Family Briefing Schedule
Marilyn Walters' brother Leland "Mikey" Walters died in a North Korean POW camp 52 years ago. She's reflected in a compact he sent her from boot camp.

August 25, 2003 KW - CW - Team Arrives, Plans to Work Until End October
A group of U.S. military investigators arrived in Pyeongyang on Saturday to begin operations to recover remains of American servicemen listed as missing in action during the Korean War. Russia's Itar-Tass News Agency reported from Pyongyang yesterday.

August 25, 2003 PGW - Four More Kuwaiti POWs Identifed as Martyrs
Four more Kuwaiti prisoners of war (POWs), who had been arrested by the Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait in 1990-91, were Sunday confirmed to have been martyred. This announcement came after DNA tests, of four remains recovered from a mass grave in southern Samawa, confirmed these belonged to four Kuwaitis who had been taken captive by the Iraqis.

August 25, 2003 KW - CW - Fifty Years of Freedom
Fifty years ago, Army Cpl. Richard K. Makua was a prisoner in North Korea even though a July 27, 1953 armistice had declared a truce in the Korean War.

August 25, 2003 POW Artifacts Among Missing at AF Museum
An audit conducted last year shows that a thousand artifacts were missing from the Air Force Museum. The 2002 audit, which was obtained by the Dayton Daily News, concluded that poor management caused the museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to lose the items.

August 25, 2003 DPMO Family Briefing
"You can think of it as a massive detective's case in which we have 88,000 who are missing," said Larry Greer of the Pentagon's Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office. "Those who did not come home, we find them and bring them home."

August 25, 2003 WW II - The Sandakan POWs
You will likely wonder why people are burning gum leaves at the Sandakan prisoner of war memorial, dedicated by the Keating government 10 years ago, and covering it with sprays of wattle and wildflowers. They will be family and friends making their very personal act of remembrance for the 1787 Australian servicemen who died at the infamous Sandakan POW camp in North Borneo in the three years from July 1942, or during the even more infamous Sandakan death marches of early 1945.

August 24, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Mr. Art Bernklau :: Ms. Carla Wetzel

August 23, 2003 WW II - Former POW Camp to be Preserved
On the rock above, an armed member of the Veterans' Guard of Canada keeps a watchful eye lest you try to leave without permission. He's willing to shoot, should you attempt to climb or otherwise penetrate the formidable fence so securely anchored to the lake bottom. Yet part of you feels duty-bound to attempt your Great Escape. You are, after all, a German. And not just a German civilian, but a prisoner of war.

August 23, 2003 Council Ensures POW-MIA Flag Will Fly
Ordinance prevents association bans of official banners. Township Council introduced an ordinance Tuesday that would make it illegal for homeowners' associations to prohibit residents from displaying national and state flags, as well as yellow ribbons, from their homes.

August 23, 2003 POW-MIA Quilt of Honor
A local community group is presenting to the Vero Beach Veterans Inc. a large wall hanging commemorating 62 Vietnam War POW-MIAs from Florida. The Universal Angel Foundation created the 7-foot by 10-foot wall hanging made of page-size squares, each of which has a name of one of the Florida veterans who are unaccounted for.

August 22, 2003 NLF Update Line
Family Update

August 22, 2003 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
News Summary

August 22, 2003 KW - CW - POWs in Pyongyang in 1993
We have obtained a Defense Intelligence Agency report that states four American prisoners of war from the Korean War were sighted in North Korea in 1993

August 21, 2003 SEA - Who's Packing Your Parachute?
Titled "Packing Your Parachute," it tells of Charles Plumb, a Navy fighter pilot who was shot down over Vietnam and spent six years of his life as a prisoner of war. He now shares his experiences on the lecture circuit. Plumb said that he and his wife were approached in a restaurant by a man who called him by name and said that he knew that Plumb had flown from the USS Kitty Hawk, was shot down and was captured.

August 20, 2003 SEA - The Bracelet
President Richard Nixon honored Col. Thorsness with the Congressional Medal of Honor that same year for an act of bravery during a mission that took place some time before he was shot down.

August 20, 2003 SEA - There's Nothing You Can't Overcome
A former prisoner of war and retired Air Force colonel knows what it's like living in a hostile enviorment.  For 20 years, he's made it his business to show people how to survive whatever challenge comes their way.

August 20, 2003 WW II - Airman Finally Recognized
Anthony J. Gullace jumped out of a burning B-17 Flying Fortress with an ill-fitting parachute over Nazi Germany in June 1943. He landed hard in a field, was captured by German troops and forced to help carry the dead bodies of his fellow airmen to a prisoner-of-war camp while being beaten and stoned.

August 19, 2003 PGW - Ex-POW Looking For Justice
He was shot at by Iraqi forces minutes later, caught and held as a prisoner of war, "You were beaten most of the day. If you had to go to the bathroom they would knock you down, kick you. I had my right eardrum broken in a beating. They placed a gun at my head one time and told me they were going to kill me if I didn't answer specific questions."

August 18, 2003 You Are Not Forgotten
The winding brick paths through the little garden next to Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station felt a few extra feet on it Sunday as members of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church met to raise a new flag honoring prisoners of war and missing in action American troops.

August 18, 2003 SEA - Only USCG MIA Comes Home to Arlington
For 35 years, he was listed as missing in action, and still he gained more friends. Strangers wore his MIA bracelet, impressed by his heroics and status as the Coast Guard's only missing person.

August 18, 2003 IRAQ - Reservists Charged With EPW Abuse
Last year at this time, the four Army reservists were civilians, leading middle-class lives in the coal-laced hills of Pennsylvania they had always called home. Two were preparing for college, one was a state trooper who spent the summer running a camp for kids, and a fourth had served in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was a prison corrections officer.

August 18, 2003 KW - CW - Bringing Fallen Soldiers Home
"We are bringing fallen soldiers home," Johnnie Webb said. "That is the mission we are committed to." He is deputy commander of the U.S. Army¡'s Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii. His military scientists operate under the slogan, "You are not forgotten."

August 17, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Mr. John Backes and Mr. Jerry Schutter :: Mr. John McCarthy and Mr. Larry J. O'Daniel

August 17, 2003 PGW - Ex-POW Waits and Wonders
Jeff Fox has a piece of paper entitling him to $30 million, but President Bush won't let him cash it in. The retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, former Gulf War prisoner of war and avid golfer from Myrtle Beach has successfully sued Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Last month, a judge awarded him and 16 other veterans a total of $959 million in damages for torture they received at the hands of their Iraqi captors.

August 17, 2003 The USS Oriskany's Final Battle
They called her ³Mighty O,² and for much of the Vietnam War she was one of the Navy¹s most heavily used aircraft carriers. Today, the USS Oriskany is at the center of one last battle.

August 16, 2003 PGW - Nelson Counters Speicher Reports
Senator Bill Nelson says a report by NBC News that Pentagon officials believe Jacksonville native Scott Speicher died shortly after his plane was shot down in 1991 is incorrect. Nelson says that unless new evidence has been uncovered in the past few days that he hasn't been told about, the question of what happened to the Gulf War pilot is still unanswered.

August 16, 2003 WW II - POW Camp Graffiti Called 'Pornographic'
Plans to turn the last remaining hut at a former prisoner of war camp into a tourist attraction were condemned today for romanticising the Nazis. The site of the prison camp at Island Farm in Ewenny, south Wales, is scheduled to be redeveloped. Campaigners want to turn Hut 9 into a museum and display 24 paintings by the PoWs.

August 16, 2003 CIVIL WAR - POW Historic Site Update
Johnson's Island was a Prisoner of War Depot for Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Located in Sandusky Bay, Johnson's Island held over 9,000 POW's during its use as a prison. Though nothing remains of the prison except the cemetery, the Johnson's Island Museum contains many computer-enhanced photographs of the prison, as well as letters, documents and artifacts. There are also items on exhibit from the Johnson's Island Resort and quarry, both of which existed at the turn of the last century.

August 16, 2003 WW II - Battle of Hong Kong Commemorated
Close to 100 World War Two veterans meet in Victoria today, at a convention to remember a horrific battle that for years went ignored by veterans' associations. Almost 300 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941. 1,400 survivors of the battle spent the next four years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

August 16, 2003 PGW - Speicher Search Returns to Crash Site
U.S. investigators searching in Iraq for clues to the fate of a Navy pilot shot down on the opening night of the 1991 Gulf War have returned to an early hypothesis: that he died at or near the site where his F/A-18 fighter crashed. A later theory -- that pilot Michael Scott Speicher was captured alive and imprisoned in Baghdad -- largely has been dismissed.

August 16, 2003 KW - CW - The Search That Never Ends
The family of Orville Kenneth Spicer was notified in December 1950 he was "possibly deceased," but absent any proof of his death, his name was carried on the list of MIAs for seven years after he was officially declared missing in acton (MIA). Although officially declared dead in 1957, Spicer is still unaccounted for along with the other 8,100 Korean servicemen.

August 16, 2003 WW II - Gone But Not Forgotten
An Army Ranger killed during World War II was honored posthumously with medals and distinctions, including a Purple Heart.

August 16, 2003 WW II - History Uncovered
A man from Germany is bringing peace with the past to a Heartland man.Collin Lyerla of Jonesboro not only painted the nose art on his World War II B-17 bomber. He also flew it on bombing raids over Germany. But, another crew was aboard his bomber when it was shot out of the air by a Germany fighter plane. Five of the ten crewmen aboard died.

August 16, 2003 WW II - Former POWs Mark War's End
Nearly 30 former Australian World War II prisoners of war and their families gathered at the Launceston Cenotaph yesterday to commemorate one of the most important days of their lives - August 15, the end of World War II.

August 16, 2003 WW II - Great Escape Becomes Video Game
Eight gamers are preparing for their screen debut, not on the movie screen, but on computer monitors in the game version of The Great Escape film. Steve McQueen digitally resurrected for the game.

August 16, 2003 WW II - Japanese Vivisectionist Speaks on Atrocities
A former Imperial Japanese Army surgeon who participated in human vivisection in China during World War II warned Friday that Japan is heading down the same path that led it into the last war.

August 15, 2003 NLF Update Line
Family Update

August 15, 2003 POW-MIA Flag Not Flying in House of Reps
"I know Speaker Flake is a staunch supporter of our efforts in Iraq and our men and women who are sacrificing so much in defense of freedom. That's why I can't understand why I can't have a meeting with him to discuss installing this flag on the Floor in honor of our prisoners of war and those missing in action."

August 14, 2003 PGW - Speicher - The Search Continues
Chances for a flag-waving, coming-home crowd to greet prisoner of war Michael Scott Speicher may seem remote, but not impossible, said Marian Nevelli, a board member with Friends Working to Free Scott Speicher.

August 14, 2003 POW-MIA Vigil Raises Awareness
Dressed in black, blindfolded and shackled, each prisoner took a turn sitting in the bamboo cage. Each one represented a prisoner of war or a soldier still missing in action. Every hour, a prisoner was released and another prisoner was put into the cage as part of the annual American Legion Post #68 Prisoners Of War/Missing In Action vigil.

August 14, 2003 PGW - Speicher Not Alive?
NBC News has reported that investigators have all but concluded that missing Navy pilot Scott Speicher of Jacksonville is dead. Speicher's jet went down during the first night of the first Gulf War 12 years ago.

August 14, 2003 KW - CW - Search For MIA Brother Goes On
He was 13 years old when she was born, working after school to provide her with a layette. At 16, he joined the service, ending up in Korea, a country from which he has never returned.

August 13, 2003 PGW - Source Claims Speicher Died of Injuries
NBC News is reporting that the search for missing Navy pilot Scott Speicher was unsuccessful. The network is reporting that after four months, investigators have "all but concluded that Speicher died of his injuries" when his plane was shot down on the first night of the first Gulf War.

August 13, 2003 Crash Site Located 35 Years Later
Thirty-five years after the crash of an Indian Air Force AN-12 aircraft near Rohtang La, teams from the army, IAF and the Himachal Pradesh government will launch an operation to salvage 19 bodies of servicemen and the wreckage.

August 12, 2003 Another Flag Flap
Something seemed amiss when Sanibel residents Dick Mark and Ellis Robinson returned to the island from vacation last month. Flying from the city-owned flag pole at Periwinkle Way and Lindgren Boulevard was a black-and-white POW/MIA flag.

August 12, 2003 Israeli MIA Pilot's Helmet Found in Iraq Museum
Thirty-six years after four Israeli air force pilots were shot down while on a flight mission in Iraq during the Six Day War, a helmet that may have belonged to one of the men, and which was on display in a Baghdad museum, was returned to Israel this weekend, Yediot Achronot reported.

August 12, 2003 WW II - Digging His Own Grave
Fifty-eight years ago Wilbur Smith was digging his own grave. It was July 1945 and Smith was a prisoner of war held by the Japanese in Thailand, a long way from his hometown of Walla Walla.

August 12, 2003 Across the Years... Two Generations of POWs Meet
William Jones beams in the photograph taken earlier this month at the Buffalo Soldiers' annual convention in Houston. Seated next to him is a celebrity, Spc. Shoshana Johnson, who was captured by Iraqi forces near Nasiriyah on March 23, and released three weeks later.

August 12, 2003 WW II - Brother Hopes DNA Match Will Bring Brother Home
Paul Lubben, 73, was in eighth grade when he last saw his older brother, U.S. Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. John Lubben. At age 28, John Lubben went missing Dec. 12, 1944, as he piloted an airplane attacking Wollstein, Germany.

August 12, 2003 SEA - Navy Remembers Recovered Crewmen
Thirty-five years have passed since the crew disappeared during their ill-fated mission from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base. Through developments in recovery techniques and the families¹ dedication to the recovery effort, the remains of the OP-2E Neptune crew were finally located and identified.

August 12, 2003 WW II - Bond of Brothers
By December of that year, they were in the mountains of Belgium, surrounded by the German army in the notorious Battle of the Bulge. They barely escaped capture before continuing their fight through Europe.

August 12, 2003 Raising POW-MIA Awareness
"In a way, it gives the wrong impression of what we're about," Dennis Hayes says. "Our issue is POWs and MIAs. Our goal is to help veterans."

August 12, 2003 SEA - VN Defense Minister to Visit US
Vietnamese defense Minister Phan Van Tra is expected to travel to the United States within the next few months for the first ever visit by the communist nation's top military officer, sources said Friday.

August 11, 2003 WW II - Papua New Guinea Recovery Mission
An 11-member crew will travel to Papua New Guinea this coming week to recover the remains of nine American servicemen who were on a B-24 bomber that went down during World War II, officials said Friday.

August 11, 2003 WW II - War Keeps Popping Up In My Dreams
For Paul Grassick, 83, the dying, the brutality and the starvation of a life in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps will never end. "The war keeps popping up in my dreams. I can't get rid of it."

August 10, 2003 WW II - Shedding Light on Dark Secrets
When an Allied troop ship was hit by a German torpedo, 800 men died. Albert LeMay was one of the lucky ones.

August 10, 2003 WW II - There's a Story Behind Every Name
It marked the culmination of a long journey to find answers and the solace that comes with finally knowing the truth for several families, one of which resides in Jacksonville.

August 10, 2003 IRAQ - Bogus Ex-POW Site Shut Down
A 33-year-old Philadelphia man on federal probation allegedly set up the Web site, which claimed to be soliciting money on behalf of Shoshana Johnson.

August 10, 2003 Ben Nighthorse Campbell

August 10, 2003 Colditz Castle
With two new films about it in the pipeline and a youth hostel about to open there, now might be just the time to pay a visit to Oflag IVc, better known as Colditz castle, the world's most famous prisoner of war camp.

August 09, 2003 PGW - Jennings, No Evidence Speicher in Cell
During Vietnam, we were told that because the then Democratic Reublic of Vietnam denied having certain US personnel or capturing them, they must have been held outside the "normal" prison system... outside the normal channels or without the official government's knowledge. Then we were told there was only one prison system and no second or third-tier system or facilities, so there couldn't be any other POWs.

August 09, 2003 PGW - DNA Doesn't Match Up
Defense officials said DNA found in an Iraqi prison cell doesn't match a missing pilot's. Michael Scott Speicher vanished during the Gulf War. U.S. forces said they found his initials in an Iraqi prison last April. Yet preliminary tests on hair discovered in the cell don't match Speicher's DNA.

August 09, 2003 PGW - Ex-POWs Fight the System
Tortured ex-POWs find they must sue Uncle Sam to collect damages from Saddam.

August 09, 2003 PGW - Kuwait Remembers
Kuwait Sunday announced the martyrdom of two more POWs, expressed relief at the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime, and said it still remembers with great sadness the fate of Kuwaiti POWs and the discovery of mass graves in various parts of Iraq.

August 09, 2003 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
Summary of News

August 08, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Steve Golding :: Bob Campbell

August 08, 2003 PGW - Fate of Speicher Unknown
Genetic material found in a prison cell in Iraq did not match that of a pilot missing since the 1991 Gulf War, but investigators continue to search for other evidence of his fate.

August 08, 2003 Phone Hoaxes An Epidemic
Donna Walker stands accused of impersonating the long-lost daughter of a Thorntown family.  This type of cruel hoax is becoming more common than you might imagine. There's no shortage of vicious prank calls and lawmakers want to do something about it.

August 08, 2003 PGW - Two Kuwaiti POWs Martyred
Kuwait Sunday announced the martyrdom of two more POWs, expressed relief at the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime, and said it still remembers with great sadness the fate of Kuwaiti POWs and the discovery of mass graves in various parts of Iraq.

August 08, 2003 SEA - NLF Update Line
Family Update

August 08, 2003 PGW - Search Continues For Kuwaiti POWs
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah has formed a special unit to search for the remains of Kuwaiti POWs in mass graves in various areas in Kuwait including a secondary school in Rowdah believed to have been the burial ground of over 12 POWs. Other areas include Salmi, Nuwaiseeb, Riqqah and South Surra.

August 08, 2003 Iran Asks ICRC For Help With POWs and Martyrs
Iran called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take direct action in locating the remains of Iranian soldiers in Iraq who were martyred during the 1980-88 Iraqi-imposed war, an official said.

August 07, 2003 PGW - Ex-POWs Seek US $1 Billion from Iraq - USG Opposed
Seventeen of Saddam Hussein's American victims from the 1991 Persian Gulf War were in U.S. District Court in Washington this week.

August 07, 2003 PGW - Pentagon Says No Proof on Speicher
Investigators have yet to prove that missing Navy pilot Scott Speicher was ever held in the Iraqi prison cell where his initials were found etched in the wall, a top Pentagon official said.

August 07, 2003 PGW - Progress Towards Speicher's Fate
A Florida congressman was in the Baghdad jail cell today where Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher (SPY'-ker) of Jacksonville may have been held. Speicher was shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. There have been rumors that he's still alive, and that his initials -- M-S-S -- were etched into the wall of the Baghdad prison cell.

August 07, 2003 SEA - Heartfelt Thanks and Deepest Gratitude
I would be most pleased if you would share it around. That way you would help to pass my thanks more widely to the fine men and women of the American army who served in Vietnam.

August 07, 2003 PGW - The Plan Is To Find the Answer
A flashlight flickered above U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw's head Friday, lighting up a spot on the wall of the tiny cell in Hakmiyah prison where Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher might have been held after being shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. Etched into the wall were the initials MSS. Crenshaw reached out and touched them. The six-foot by 10-foot cell had a hole in the floor for a toilet.

August 07, 2003 PGW - Search Continues for Kuwaiti POWs
"Allied forces found and buried the dead bodies of the six women naked in a trench which was used by Iraqis on their withdrawal from Kuwait in 1991. The forces, however, rescued one woman, who was found in the trench in critical condition," said the sources.

August 06, 2003 IRAQ - Four US Soldiers Charged With EPW Mistreatment
Four soldiers with the 320th military police battalion based in Ashley are accused of mistreating the prisoners they were sworn to guard. One area father is defending his son and the other soldiers.

August 06, 2003 IRAQ - Search Continues for Speicher
Investigators have yet to prove that missing Gulf War pilot Capt. Scott Speicher was ever held in the Iraqi prison cell where his initials were found etched in the wall, the head of the Pentagon's search for missing Americans said Wednesday.

August 06, 2003 WW II - 60 Years After War, Men Receive Medals
Donald Schroder of Council Bluffs and George Jones of Tabor recently received military service medals due to them for their service in World War II. Schroder, a former prisoner of war, received his POW medal and seven others, and Jones was granted 11.

August 05, 2003 SEA - Denton Inducted Into Hall of Honor
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Jeremiah Denton of Mobile, who endured seven years and seven months as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has been selected to be inducted into the Alabama Military Hall of Honor.

August 05, 2003 WW II - USS Houston Reunion
Of the more than 1,000 men on the ship, 368 survived and were placed in prisoner of war camps in Southeast Asia. The USS Houston (CL-81) was launched in June 1943.

August 05, 2003 KW - CW - To Hell and Back - Steve Kiba
"Most of the time, you were standing at attention," Kiba said. "You had leg irons on, you had handcuffs on and you were asked all kinds of questions It could last a few hours to 24 hours or longer. All that time, the guy would have the gun at your head." Then it was back to solitary confinement. There was no running water or sanitation. A hard board served as a bed.

August 05, 2003 WW II - A Real Hero In Many Ways
James McMurria, who spent nearly three years of his life in a prisoner of war camp and the last several as a civic volunteer, died Tuesday at Greenville Memorial Hospital.

August 05, 2003 POW-MIA Flag Will Fly

August 05, 2003 SEA - Laos Repatriates Remains to US
The Lao Government on Monday handed over in Vientiane a number of sets of remains of American servicemen missing in action (MIA) during the war in Laos to the Government of the United States.

August 05, 2003 KW - CW - "Forgotten War" Vets Forgotten by Clinton
New York war veterans expressed outrage recently when New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton allegedly reneged on a promise to honor the memory of five Queens County area men who died serving America in the Korean War.

August 04, 2003 WW II - POWs Reunite 58 Years Later
hey weren't supposed to go up in the air that day. But a plane had engine trouble and a spare one was needed for a mission over Germany. So a nine-man bomber squadron in the 305th bomb group was ordered to go. By the end of the operation, the men were taken by Germans into a prisoner of war camp.

August 03, 2003 IRAQ - Recovered POWs Speak Out
Three weeks into the war, victory in Iraq seemed all but certain. Baghdad has fallen, Jessica Lynch had been rescued, yet the fate of the remaining POWs was still unknown.

August 02, 2003 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Broadcast
News and Views :: Mrs. Sharon Dreyer :: Ms. Denise Nichols

August 01, 2003 WW II - The Secret POW Diary
An extraordinary diary written secretly in a Japanese prisoner of war camp by a Suffolk clergyman has been published ­ providing a fascinating insight into life for those men who endured the camps.

August 01, 2003 WW II - The POW Massacre
Locals on the tiny island of Maleai rolled out the red carpet for June Woods, one of eight people who made the 9000-mile journey to the coral island in the South Pacific, close to where her father was among PoWs massacred by the Japanese.

August 01, 2003 IRAQ - Families & MOCs Want Fair Treatment For Accused GIs
After going to war for their country, four area Army reservists are fighting for their freedom against charges they abused Iraqi POWs.

POW-MIA Issue Update September 2003