POWs

Joe Muharsky's

POW/MIA Page

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A Tribute To The Men And Women Of The Armed Forces Of

Who Are Prisoners Of War Or Missing In Action

      

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As a tribute to any member of the Armed Forces of The United States Of America, MIA in Vietnam, I am proud to offer a free 8 X 10 picture of your loved one to any surviving family member free of charge.   There are no strings attached to this offer.  I will even pay the shipping charges to return the finished photo to you. Just send me the picture and the name as it appears on the Vietnam Memorial and I will create it in a transparency for you merged with your loved ones name on The Vietnam Memorial.  The original picture of the names on the wall is a copywrited picture so these pictures are not for sale.

Here is an example of what you will receive.

WO1  Dale Allan Pearce    MIA  17 MAY 1971

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For specific questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail  me.

Click on thumbnails to see larger sized copy.

Pictures are not shown in 8 X 10 or high resolution to conserve space.

Original photos are always shown on left and restorations to the right of original

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Colonel Gary G. Wright  United States Air Force  MIA  17 January 1967

  This picture was on the cover of the book "The Wall".  It depicts a Vietnam veteran holding up his young son to the Memorial touching the name of his grandfather Colonel Gary G. Wright,   U.S.A.F.  Colonel Wright was flying a F-4 Phantom over North Vietnam when he was reported Missing In Action on  17 January 1967.  Colonel Wright is also a Korean War Veteran and flew F-86 Saber Jets in Korea.   All these pictures were a gift to Colonel Wright's Son for the sacrifice he and his father made in service to his country.

  

  

  

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WO1 Dale Allen Pearce  United States Army  MIA 17 May 71

The original of this was a pen and ink drawing of my friend, WO1 Dale Allen Pearce, MIA 17 May 71.  I changed it to a photograph, colorized it, added a background, and did a transparency with his name on the Vietnam Memorial.

   

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The original of this picture was black and white. This is also Dale Allen Pearce. A new background was added, the photo was colorized, and various examples are shown.

   

  

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Commander Richard Rich  United States Air Force  MIA  19 May 1967

This is Commander Richard Rich   U.S.N.  who was reported Missing In Action on  19 May 1967 while flying an F-4 Phantom over North Vietnam.  These pictures were done for free for my friend, Commander Rich's son.

He never knew his Dad.

Original picture of Commander Rich is not shown.

   

POW/MIA

MIA Facts Site

You have three choices:   1.  Read this page; it's full of good stuff and, at the bottom, find a link to the Table of Contents; or, 2.  Click here for theTable Of Contents. or, 3. Click here for theWhat's Newpage. or, 4. Search the site for a specific word or phrase. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This site written and published with: Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Site hosted by: CrystalTech ISP provided by: Kaballero.com

MIA Facts Site by Joe Schlatter Links on this page Purpose of this site Table of Contents and What's New Breaking News Purpose of this site This site is published to provide facts about  the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War.  At the conclusion of the Vietnam War,  2,583 Americans did not return.  A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals.   Misinformation, pseudo-history, and deliberate fabrication are  rampant.  As a result, myths are regularly proclaimed to be fact.  This site destroys those myths. The Myths:  Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War. The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released. U.S. POWs remain in captivity today. There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. The U.S. government is doing nothing to account for or recover missing men.  The Facts:  All U.S. POWs captured during the Vietnam War were released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier.  The only men captured and not released are 113 who died in captivity; their identities and the circumstances of their deaths are known; some of their remains have been recovered/returned.. No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming.  There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place).  No U.S. POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. The U.S. government has been -- since well before the end of the Vietnam War -- exerting all possible efforts to recover or account for missing men.   That effort continues  today and is unprecedented in the history of warfare. Those who promote these false claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology.   The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect:  The big lie has been accepted as truth in some quarters. How many Americans are "missing" in Southeast Asia? At the end of Operation Homecoming in the Spring of 1973, 2,646 Americans did not return from Southeast Asia -- they were "unaccounted for."  Since then,  957 have been "accounted for" by (1) recovering and identifying remains; (2) return of a small number of individuals after Operation Homecoming; (3) recovering the remains of several individuals as a group whose remains are not separately identifiable. Currently, 1,689 Americans are "unaccounted for" in Southeast Asia: Vietnam:   1,296 North Vietnam : 476 South Vietnam : 820 Laos :  328 Cambodia  :  58 China (territorial waters)  :  7 These figures were last updated on :  May 30, 2011 Figures include 468 at sea or overwater losses Click here for details on the number of missing. Click here to see a chart that lists the missing by service and by country of loss.