This is a story about a very important person that
was in my life at one time. His name is Glenn Guinn
and I am looking for him. Glenn and I wrote each other
while he was in viet nam. He was with the 335th AHC.
He was in Dong Tam in July of 71. He was from Kanas
at the time he went into the service. And I just
want to know what became of him and if he's ok. Would
you please help me. I've been looking for a long time.
The picture below is what he looked like in 1971.
PRINGLE, JOE HAROLD
Horner W.Va.
Rank/Branch: E7/US Army
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squad,
9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
Date of Birth: 28 June 1929
Home City of Record: Horner WV
Date of Loss: 02 February 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 161209N 1081006E (AT960937)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Other Personnel In Incident: Kenneth J. Patton;
Charles Adkins; Joseph Puggi;
Donald Burnham (all missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 June 1990
from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency
sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
REMARKS:CRASHSITE/PRINGLE ID FOUND
SYNOPSIS: Donald Burnham was the pilot of a UH1H
helicopter (#66-16442) that
departed Camp Evans, Quang Tri, Republic of Vietnam
for Chu Lai, Republic of
Vietnam on February 2, 1968. Also aboard were SP4
Charles Adkins, SFC Joe Pringle,
SSgt Joseph Puggi, passengers;
and SP4 Kenneth Patton, crewchief.
The personnel aboard the aircraft were all
members of B Troop, 1st Squad, 9th
Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division.
During a ground radar-controlled approach to Da Nang
Airbase, the controller
lost radio contact with the helicopter and
subsequently lost radar contact. The
last positive position of the aircraft was 12 miles
north of Da Nang.
After attempts to contact Captain Burnham by radio
failed, ramp checks were
conducted by another pilot from his unit. Search of
the area to the north of Da
Nang failed to locate the missing aircraft.
On May 28, 1968, a crashed and burned UH1H helicopter
(tail #6442) was located
in the appropriate vicinity and a search party
recovered an ID tag belonging to
SFC Pringle, several weapons, and some human bones.
The ID tag and weapons were
given to an unidentified major; subsequent attempts to
trace the weapons have
been unsuccessful.
All human remains were given to the U.S. Army Mortuary
at Da Nang, and were
subsequently determined unidentifiable. Search
attempts terminated on November
16, 1972. Because of the density of the underbrush,
no attempt to recover
further remains was made. The crash site was
photographed in July 1974, at which
time it became known that parts of the aircraft had
been recovered by a Vietnamese woodcutter.
No evidence of human remains
were found in the area.
Donald Burnham's photograph was identified by a
Vietnamese rallier as having
been a prisoner of war. CIA analysis failed to
determine why Burnham's photo was
selected, as neither he nor the other crew were seen
by returned POWs.
If it were not for over 10,000 reports of Americans
still held captive in Southeast Asia,
the families of the men aboard UH1H
#6442 might be able to give
up hope of seeing their sons and brothers again.
But as long as there is evidence that even one is alive,
the possibility exists that any of the crew of
the UH1H lost on February 2, 1968 could be alive.
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