WE SHALL NEVER FORGET.

THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO MY "ADOPTED" BROTHER AND VETERAN

JACK ROCKWOOD HARVEY - HOME CITY - GARDNER, MAINE

This is the information about Jack Rockwood Harvey and what is known about what happened to him as he served his country and his people in South Vietnam on November 28, 1972.

Name: Jack Rockwood Harvey
Rank/Branch: O2/USAF
Unit: Udorn Airfield, Thailand
Date of Birth: 14 September 1947
Home City of Record: Gardner ME
Loss Date: 28 November 1972
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 161500N 1080000E (ZC065915)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action

Category: 4
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: F4D
Refno: 1949
Other Personnel In Incident: Bobby M. Jones (missing)

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 in 1998.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: On November 28, 1972, Jack Harvey and Bobby Jones were flying an F4D Phantom jet on a non-combat flight from their base at Udorn, Thailand to Da Nang, South Vietnam. The purpose of the mission was to log flight hours for Jones to maintain his Flight Surgeon status.

Shortly before arriving at Da Nang, when the aircraft was about 18 miles northwest of its destination, it disappeared from the radar screen without any voice contact. A few hours later, emergency signals were heard, but rescue efforts were hampered by monsoon rains and enemy held territory. When search teams were able to enter the area three days later, they did not locate the crew of the F4D. No further word has surfaced on either Harvey or Jones.

Examination of intelligence reports indicate that there was more than one prison "system" in Vietnam. Those prisoners who were released in 1973 were maintained in the same systems. If Harvey was captured and kept in another system, the POWs who returned did not know it.

Now, nearly 20 years later, men like Harvey are all but forgotten except by friends, family and fellow veterans. The U.S. "priority" placed on determining their fates pales in comparison to the results it has achieved.

Since Harvey went missing, over 6000 reports have been received by the U.S. that Americans are still being held captive in Southeast Asia. Whether Harvey is among them is not known. What is certain, however, is that we, as a nation, are guilty of the abandonment of nearly 2500 of our best and most courageous men. We cannot forget, and must do everything in our power to bring these men home.

We shall never forget those who remain missing. We shall never forget Jack Harvey and Bobby Jones nor any of the other men or women who remain missing to this day. We shall remain determined in our efforts, our hopes and our prayers that the missing will be found and returned to their families and to the land in which they were born - to where they belong and must be. To the families, my prayers are with you as I know there are unified prayers from millions of others, who have lost a loved one and who wait and wait, too long, so many years, for some word.

In honor and respect to all the men and women who have served honorably and have sacrificed greatly for this country and for all of us in this nation. With honor and respect to all our Returning Vietnam Veterans.....your unselfishness - your sacrifices and the tremendous personal price each and every one has paid for the cause of freedom and in loyalty to our country, is not forgotten.

You are our Warriors. You are our brothers and sisters.

IN HONOR AND RESPECT TO ALL OUR VETERANS OF ALL WARS.

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

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In my homestate of Maine, I encourage you to please contact the following elected officials for our state and remind them we have not forgotten and we urge them not to do so either - but to continue the fight until every last missing veteran is found and returned home. Thank you.

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Thank you.