European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Day Booklet reveals bits of mias stones by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington pick me up pick me up they Are Navy Barton Creed radioed after his plane was shot Down along the to Chi Minh Trail in March Creed said he had a broken Arm and a broken Rescue planes made four at tempts to find him in the next 24 but they i have a Good am in Good shape and can see no enemy forces on the air Force Robert an Derson radioed after he was shot Down Over North Vietnam in october radio Hanoi reported a number of pilots captured that but Only Andersons plane was Andersons weapons captured was repatriated in Anderson has never been accounted those Are two of the cases of americans missing in Indochina that keep officials from closing the books on service members listed As missing in even 10 years after the end of the nations military involvement fragments of their stories and several others Are contained in a 21page Booklet compiled by the defense department to increase Public awareness of the pow Mia the Booklet was provided As part of the Pentagon Observance of National pow Mia recognition july the governments of Laos and Vietnam say no americans Are still held but officials say the communists in Cambodia recently claimed that they have some knowledge of personnel missing there and that the vietnamese know More than they Are a wealth of information on specific aircraft downings was published in the North throughout the the Booklet a communist source said during interrogation that the vietnamese ministry of defense kept a Central list of american prisoners and ordered that data on the death of an american be forwarded to along with sketches of the burial the Booklet also says that in a vietnamese mortician of chinese ances try told officials that the remains of about 400 americans were kept in a warehouse in after the Paris peace the vietnamese government provided a list of 37 americans it said died in but until last the vietnamese did not return the remains of anyone on the list or provide any additional information about in the vietnamese returned the remains of six the names of a number of americans known to have been captured by South vietnamese communists do not appear on any officials have since the fall of Saigon in the government has received More than reports on prisoners or Richard assistant Secretary of defense for International Security told More than 120 Are still being the governments official position is that although we have thus far been unable to prove that americans Are still detained against their the information available to us precludes ruling out that Here Are some More examples that show the kind of information received about americans in Indochina army Richard Bowers and Gerasimo Arroy Baez were Cap tured together in South Vietnam in March according to reports of two vietnamese who were taken captive with them but Arroyo Baez re Mains were returned last and one of the vietnamese who escaped said Bowers was shot the Day he was but the vietnamese have never provided pos from recent wars captured interned died while pow returned to control missing unaccounted for War 147 Wii Korea casualties from recent wars Battle deaths no Nbattle deaths wounds not mortal number serving we i we ii Korea information for charts supplied by army news service Vietnam 826 101 725 Vietnam any information on a photo of civilian Eugene de lost in Laos in september and other captives was obtained from a a that lao in the lao government indicated he had been killed in an escape attempt but provided no further returnees reported the capture and death in Captivity of Marine corps warrant officer Solomon lost in South Vietnam in february but Godwin name docs not appear in any lists furnished by the former provisional revolutionary government of a recording allegedly made by air Force David lost in Laos in May was broadcast in May the text appeared in foreign broadcast information service Doc a photo of Hrdlicka in Captivity was but nothing is known of his United press International reporter Terry Reynolds and australian up i photographer Alan Hirons were reported missing in april the car they had been driving was found at an enemy Roadblock on route 1 in prey Vang prov villagers said the two had been led away by communist the next a former Viet Cong reported seeing two men believed to be Reynolds and another report of a Man believed to be Reynolds said he was being held in Sampan Loeu about 25 Miles Southeast of phenom in june letters written by Donald lost in South Vietnam in june were subsequent Intelli gence indicated Sparks May have but no information has been training Swap is top partnership event Germany Twenty years before the French left the nato military it want uncommon for the military to train in its rare for american units to train but the members of the howitzer Section of Btry 4th 5th Field 1st inf div trained last summer in about 90 Miles Northeast of and came with More than howitzer training under their that we Klong training exercise and its reciprocal visit by French soldiers to Gra Fen Woehr last fall were chosen As the years outstanding partnership event Between an american and a no German military the awards for partnership were presented Friday at Kel Ley 7th corps he in Glenn Usa eur com presided Over this years award As he did monday Over the Ger award Ronald the 4th bus executive said the 12 men who trained at Stippes received some history lessons they didst the battalions partnership unit is the French 11th arty the 11 the during both lost Large numbers of people in Trench Lucas the area where they train still has remnants of you hear about world War and you see a few but they would talk about their grandfathers and relatives who had died he Lucas said he was also surprised by the intensity of French most of us have never trained with the he it is not 8 until 2 and then you they go at it All and its i was very and they trained very this years award for company size units went to co 501st aviation in 1st army and the 444 tac helicopter Ca Nadian the battalion level award went to the 10th engr 3rd inf and the Lith regiment do Genie French ii the award for the outstanding training event went to the 2nd 66th Armor 2nd army div and the 12th 1st Netherlands source of illness Hughes unofficially grounded baffles marines Apache Affer Accident to a n n to it a o a m Parris a most of the 132 recruits who checked into sick Bay after dining at the Parris Island mess Hall were Back in their Barracks thurs but Marine corps officials were still mystified about what caused the outbreak of nausea and the initial diagnosis is a food borne said Mas Ter Ron a spokesman at the Parris Island Marine recruit training Keane said that an examination of the mess Hall and the staff turned up nothing that could have caused the All but 10 of the recruits had been released by the Hospital by late afternoon and everyone was expected to be Back on duty by the end of the one outbreak occurred Between and in four platoons that share the same mess said some had become sick after the midday Mexico train crash kills 12 Mexico City a a train slammed into a bus and a pickup truck in a Mexico City and 12 people were killed and 70 police and the red Cross a Apache helicopters were grounded unofficially by the army and the Hughes helicopter for about two weeks after a chop per being tested tipped onto its Side and damaged its Rotor a Hughes spokesman said an army investigation into the Accident indicated that the ah64 Apache attack on the ground for preflight tipped Over because a backup flight control system at least partially said Robert a Hughes spokesman at the company Headquarters in Culver he said the problem apparently was Peculiar to the one and the flight restrictions imposed after the Acci Dent did not represent a formal the two civilian test pilots aboard were not injured in the june 17 Accident at Hughes helicopters Assem Bly Plant in suburban the helicopters main Rotor Blades struck the Concrete pad and were Mack said he did not know the extent of any other Only a handful of the helicopters were then in use at three army installations when the Accident Mili tary and company spokesmen both Hughes and the army have resumed flying the but the backup control system has been Deatti Mack Mike a spokesman for the army aviation sys tems come in confirmed that the army apaches were not flown Between june 17 and june in army spokesman Miguel Mon Tevere said about six apaches were being flown at fort fort and at the army Yuma proving ground when the Accident most of the other 24 ah64s then formally in the army Possession had not been shipped from the Mesa he the heavily armed Apache is designed to attack tanks and other armoured it will be fielded with attack helicopter battalions at fort and in the army has contracted for 309 out of 675 apaches it plans to acquire through the end of the and 46 have been turned Over to the army so Mack