POW-MIA Statistics

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA

(Source: DPMO.  Current as of 6-18-02)

U.S. Unaccounted For 

Vietnam North 514
Vietnam South 928
Laos 400
Cambodia 58
China 8
TOTAL 1908 (includes 459 at sea/over water losses)

Pursuit Status

Further Pursuit 1033
Deferred 214
No Further Pursuit 661

ACCOUNTING FOR U.S. PERSONNEL:  The Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii reports that since 1973, the U.S. has accounted for 677 Americans from Southeast Asia.

 

Vietnam

 483
China 2
Laos 167
Cambodia 25
TOTAL 677

U.S. GOVERNMENT EFFORTS:  Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, the U.S. Government has acquired 21804 reports possibly pertaining to Americans in Southeast Asia:

 

Firsthand Live Sightings

1915
Hearsay Sightings Reports 4881
Crash / Grave Sites 5348
Dog tags 9760
TOTAL 21904

 

Of the 1915 firsthand reports received since 1975, 1897 (99.06%) reports are resolved.

KOREAN WAR

8,200 APPROXIMATELY UNACCOUNTED FOR

WORLD WAR II

78,976 APPROXIMATELY UNACCOUNTED FOR