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John Edward Wilburn
Name: John Edward Wilburn
Rank/Branch: E4/US Army
Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division
Date of Birth: 12 February 1944
Home City of Record: Luther, OK
Date of Loss: 19 April 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 162211N 1070836E (YD291105)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1D

Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)



SOURCES:
Compiled by Homecoming II Project, 01 September 1990,
from one or more of the following:
  • Raw data from U.S. Government agency sources
  • Correspondence with POW/MIA families
  • Published sources
  • Interviews.

SYNOPSIS:
On April 19, 1968, SP4 Wilburn, a member of
Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division,
was participating in a combat assault mission into the
A Shau Valley, South Vietnam.
The helicopter in which he was a passenger was hit in the tail section by hostile
anti-aircraft fire and started to spin. This caused Wilburn to fall out of the left door
of the helicopter from an altitude of between 3000 and 4000 feet. No search was
possible because of the tactical situation, the nature of the terrain, and difficulty of
establishing a reasonable geographic location at which he fell out of the aircraft.
John E. Wilburn is listed among the missing because his body was never found.


Others who are missing do not have such clear-cut cases.
  • Some were known captives.
  • Some were photographed as they were led by their guards.
  • Some were in radio contact with search teams.
  • Others simply disappeared.






Since the war ended,
over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who claim to
know about Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, and several million
documents have been studied. U.S. Government experts cannot seem to
agree whether Americans are there alive or not. Detractors say it would
be far too "politically difficult" to bring the men they believe to be alive
home, and the U.S. is content to negotiate for remains. Well over 1000
first-hand, eye-witness reports of American prisoners still alive in South-
east Asia have been received by 1990. Most of them are still classified.
If, as the U.S. seems to believe, the men are all dead,
why the secrecy after so many years?
IF THE MEN ARE ALIVE, WHY ARE THEY NOT HOME?






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