Request for Assistance – Seven Bridges POW/MIA Remembrance Ride & Ceremony

Good day, Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Denny Luke, and I serve as the POW/MIA Chairman for The American Legion Department of Florida. One of my responsibilities is working alongside the National POW/MIA Memorial & Museum here in Jacksonville, Florida, to help plan and execute our annual Seven Bridges POW/MIA Remembrance Ride and Ceremony. This event is a police-escorted...
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Need help identifying Marine Officers

Hi. My name is John Stansifer the author of NO BULLET GOT ME: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun- a bio of Chaplain Emil Kapaun who died in Camp 5 Pyoktong May 23, 1951. He is now the most decorated chaplain in US military history and soon to be named a Saint in the Roman Catholic Church.  Major Gerald Fink was a Jewish USMC fighter pilot with VMF-312 and shot down Aug 1951 and ended up...
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PVT James Coogan

Kristi-Lynn Gonzales is looking for any information regarding Private James Coogan, 1 CD Camp 1; her deceased grandfather.
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Uisa-ri location needed

William K. (Bill) Norwood, the president of the Korean War Ex-POW Association, made a report in December 2012 in which he noted that the remains of CPT Turnace Hartwell Brown [Hq/57 FA Bn] were located at village of Uisa-ri, along with those of several other POWs. He noted the town was north of Chosin Reservoir where the team was not permitted to travel, but he did not indicate how much further...
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CPL Maxwell Dean Kitchen

Kitchen went MIA during the Battle of Unsan 11/2/50 He was in: L Co., 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Private First Class and posthumously promoted to Corporal. He was from Lawrence County, Kentucky. For more information: https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=206992 I have suspicions he was captured the same time Emil Kapaun was and perhaps held at Camp 5 too? My...
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Payne, Hubert

Hubert Payne, taken prisoner 4/5 January  Happy valley with the Royal Ulster rifles.   From Antony Payne tonypayne5865@gmail.com
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