I’ve decide to adopt a POW/MIA….. I’ve even ordered a virtual MIA/POW bracelet…..
List relevance, they fought and died for our freedoms…..

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Welcome to Operation Just Cause (OJC).
Below is the information you requested. Please save it to a floppy disk to
prevent loss due to computer crash or accidentally being deleted with other
e-mail.
Information about Operation Just Cause can be found at: http://www.ojc.org
You can find free POW/MIA graphics for your web site, adopt a POW, Official
OJC newsletter as well as important links to other sites for can be found at
this web site. http:www.ojc.org./NL/
Please consider joining our Official OJC Web Ring, and Yellow Ribbon
campaign.
Please consider joining our Official OJC Web Ring:

http://www.ojc.org/Webring/

The OJC Web Ring joins together the POW/MIA pages on the net. After you get
your remembrance page, as you want it, please add it to the OJC links page
at: http://www.ojc.org/links/links.htm Please select OJC Member section.
If you are interested in POW/MIA bracelets you can find information about
them from US Veteran’s Dispatch at http:www.usvetdsp.com/usvet/index/html or
phone number 1-800-452-8906. POW/MIA bracelets can also be ordered from
ttp://www.asde.com/~pownet/hoi.htm.
If you have been wearing a POW/MIA bracelet and would like to contact the
family or find out more information please check with the National Alliance
Home page at http://www.nationalalliance.org. We would like to encourage
you to continue wearing your POW/MIA bracelet until your POW/MIA comes home.
You can try to contact the families and let them know they are not
forgotten. Families, who still wait, derive a tremendous source of strength
from knowing their son’s or husband’s name is still being worn proudly on
the wrist of a stranger who never got to know him.
Be sure to write your letter to your congressmen and representatives, this
is very important. Let them know how concerned you are about the POW/MIA’s
still not home.
Thank you for joining and caring to help bring “our boys” home! If you wish
to adopt another POW/MIA just send me a note. Perhaps you might want to
adopt all the POW/MIA servicemen involved in the same incident or all of one
military branch or all POW/MIA’s from your state. Feel free to adopt ALL
the POW’s and MIA’s!
Remember to check out the POW related links at

http://www.ojc.org/gunny/links/

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God bless you,
Richard T. Rannells
mailto:[email protected]
www.members.tripod.com/~Lord_Night
Feel free to download the new POW/MIA Desktop Theme:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1452/powmia-theme.zip

For a free Virtual POW/MIA Bracelet please visit the Virtual POW/MIA
bracelet page at:

http://www.geocities.com/ohio_pow_mia/virtual_bracelet.html

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I wish to thank you for your words. They mean a lot to me and to the men who
are still not at home. Your support and kind heart is what is needed. I
thank you again.

CROSBY, HERBERT CHARLES
Name: Herbert Charles Crosby
Rank/Branch: O3/US Army
Unit: 71st Aviation Company, 14th Aviation Battalion, 16th Aviation Group,
23rd Infantry Division (Americal), Chu Lai
Date of Birth: 30 May 1947 (Ft. Wayne IN)
Home City of Record: South Georgia
Date of Loss: 10 January 1970
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 152927N 1081808E (BT239141)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 4
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1C, “Firebirds”
Incident # 1547
Other Personnel In Incident: George A. Howes; Wayne C. Allen; Francis G.
Graziosi (all missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April 1991 from one
or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated
by the P.O.W. NETWORK with information from David Grieger, who served with
Herbert Crosby.
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: On January 10, 1970, Capt. Herbert C. Crosby, pilot; WO George A.
Howes, co-pilot; SP5 Wayne C. Allen, crew chief; and SP4 Francis G.
Graziosi,
door gunner; were flying a UH1C helicopter (serial #66-739) as the flight
lead
in a flight of three helicopter gunships returning from Tien Phuoc to the
unit base at Chu Lai, South Vietnam.
(NOTE: Records differs as to the aircraft type on this incident. Some
records show the aircraft type this crew was flying as UH1H, and some show
it as a UH1C. Herbert Crosby flew Charlie models every day from at least
July 1969 to January 1970. The serial number, #66-739 correlates to a C
model, the first two numbers indicating that the aircraft had been made in
1966, and the H model only had come out a few months before this time.
Although C models were gunships, and usually flew more or less
independently, while this aircraft was flying in tight formation as flight
lead, which would correlate with the H model, it has been confirmed that the
ship on which this crew was flying was definitely a Charlie model.)
At 1300 hours, the three helicopters departed the Special Forces camp at
Tien Phuoc. Five to ten minutes later, due to instrument flight rules, Capt.
Crosby directed the flight to change to a different flight heading. When the
helicopters changed frequencies to contact Chu Lai ground control approach,
radio contact was lost with Capt. Crosby and was not regained.
The other two aircraft reached Chu Lai heliport, and at 1400 hours, search
efforts were begun for the missing aircraft, although the crew was not
found.
According to a 1974 National League of Families report, George Howes
survived the crash of this helicopter. The report further maintains that the
loss occurred in Laos, although the coordinates place it some 40-odd miles
from that country.
A North Vietnamese prisoner released later reported that he had seen Howes
in captivity the same month the helicopter went down. A second sighting by a
villager in Phuoc Chouc (or Phouc Chau) village reported Howes and two other
POWs stopped for water at his house in February, 1970, en route to Laos.
Whether these reports also relate to Allen, Crosby and Graziosi, is unknown.
When the last American troops left Southeast Asia in 1975, some 2500
Americans were unaccounted for. Reports received by the U.S.Government since
that time build a strong case for belief that hundreds of these “unaccounted
for” Americans are still alive and in captivity.
“Unaccounted for” is a term that should apply to numbers, not men. We, as a
nation, owe these men our best effort to find them and bring them home.
Until the fates of the men like the UH1C crew are known, their families will
wonder if they are dead or alive .. and why they were deserted.