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DUSING, CHARLES GALE
Name: Charles Gale Dusing
Rank/Branch: E9/US Air Force
Unit:
Date of
Birth: 11 April 1928
Home City of Record: Charleston SC
Date of Loss: 31 October 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss
Coordinates: 10400N 1070000E (YS224805)
Status (in 1973): Prisoner of War
Category: 1
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ford Truck
Other
Personnel in Incident: Thomas Moore; Samuel Adams (both POW),
Jasper
Page, escapee
REMARKS: 6512 DIC-ON PRG
DIC LIST
Source: Compiled 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.
SYNOPSIS: On October 31,
1965, four U.S. Air Force personnel were
captured
while traveling by truck from Vung Tau to Saigon. This incident
occurred
on
Route 15 at grid coordinates YS224805, just on the border of Binh Hoa
and
Gia
Dinh Province of South Vietnam.
The individuals involved in this
incident
are SSgt. Samuel Adams, SSgt. Charles Dusing, TSgt. Thomas Moore and
TSgt.
Jasper Page.
On November 2, 1965, while being taken to a detention camp, Jasper
Page,
managed to escape and
return to U.S. control. It was reported that
Samuel
Adams had been shot during the same escape that freed Page, but
a
defector
identified Adams' photo as a prisoner at a later date. CIA's analysis
of
this identification has
been inconclusive. The names of all three
appeared
on the died in captivity list furnished by the Provisional
Revolutionary
Government
(PRG) in 1973 at the Paris Peace Accords. The list reflected
that
they had died during December 1965, but no details
were given.
When 591 Americans were released at the end of the war in 1973, Adams,
Dusing
and Moore were not
among them; their names were on a list. No bodies
were
returned to their families, even though the Vietnamese clearly
know
where to
find the three men. Since that time, Vietnam has doled out handfuls of
remains
as the political
atmosphere seemed appropriate, but Adams, Dusing and
Moore
remain unaccounted for.
The three are among nearly
2500 Americans who remain missing in
Indochina.
Unlike "MIA's" from other wars, most of these men can be accounted
for.
Tragically, over 8000 reports concerning Americans still in Southeast
Asia
have
been received by the U.S.
since the end of the war. Experts say that
the
evidence is overwhelming that Americans were left behind in enemy
hands.
It's
time
we brought our men home.
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| CHARLES GALE DUSING IS HE DEAD OR ALIVE |
For the Treasure Seekers
Bless those that are looking
Hunting for the
tiniest clue
Chopping thru the jungle
God, let their vigor renew
Those digging through the mud
Sifting through
each shovel too
Looking for evidence of a crash site
Or a last battle on an old night
Or a piece of button from a
uniform
Any piece of metal wedged so tight
Dog tags in the jungle floor
Anything that differs from the norm
That
the jungle vines may bind
Treasure hunters, they are, searching
And the treasure they hope to find
Just a scrape
of a military shoe
Or a resting place in a foreign land
A ring once worn upon a hand
God give them strength and bless
them
For what they still have to do
Shield them from the blazing sun
Shelter them from the monsoon rain
That they
may be able to continue on
And, in doing so, ease some family’s pain
May they bring a missing soldier home again…
İFaye Sizemore
May 04, 2002 |
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