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WELLS, ROBERT JAMES



Name: Robert James Wells
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
Unit: 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division
Date of Birth: 26 December 1943
Home City of Record: Philadelphia PA
Date of Loss: 22 July 1966
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 133735N 1073704E (YA832078)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Refno: 0403
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 September 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.>br> Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS: PFC Robert J. Wells was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. On July 22, 1966, he and his unit were conducting a mission in Pleiku Province, Republic of Vietnam when they crossed a swift stream near the Ia Drang River.
During the crossing, the safety line Wells was using broke and he was swept away. Witnesses tried to save him, but he disappeared under the water. At the time, Wells was undoubtedly weighted down by ammunition and other gear.
Searches along the banks of the river were conducted, but no trace of Wells was ever found. He was listed Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered. There is little likelihood that his body will ever be found.
Wells is listed among the missing because he was never found. Others who are missing do not have such clear-cut cases. Some were known captives; some were photographed as they were led by their guards. Some were in radio contact with search teams, while others simply disappeared.
Since the war ended, over 250,000 interviews have been conducted with those who claim to know about Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, and several million documents have been studied. U.S. Government experts cannot seem to agree whether Americans are there alive or not. Detractors say it would be far too politically difficult to bring the men they believe to be alive home, and the U.S. is content to negotiate for remains.

 

 

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