DO you also wear that symbol of dedication
to bringing the men home who were left behind? Has
he been found?
"In war, the first casualty is truth"
Aeschylus
I have worn my POW/MIA bracelet since 1990 - and I will not take it off
until he's brought home where he belongs.
Can you handle that? Wearing a bracelet that says you believe our POW's
and MIA's belong HERE on US soil? It's such a small small gesture. Get
one!
Chief Dusing,
You are in my heart, on my mind, and your name is on my wrist. Here you
will remain until they bring you home.
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 **note... long but important, please
read
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. |