Vietnam Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Documents

September 2014

On 13 July 1992, the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs levied a task on NSA/CSS to review SIGINT reporting for relevance to the Vietnam POW/MIA issue and possible correlation to individual POW/MIA cases. NSA/CSS provided the Committee with three Correlation Studies, produced in August 1992, September 1993, and September 1996. Most of the information mentioned in these studies is chronologically organized by Reference Number (RefNo), which is listed as case #, and includes the incident date. The Department of Defense assigned RefNos to each incident in which there was the potential loss of life or capture. There are some entries without a RefNo or case #, but do have the incident date. The earliest incident is dated 1951 and the last 1988.

Over the next several months, NSA/CSS will post over 1600 additional documents related to POW/MIAs in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The documents are NSA field site reporting, NSA end product, summary reporting, memoranda, watch officers notes, and analyst communications. For ease of searching, those documents will be accessible under links posted for each RefNo for which they contain pertinent information.

The correlation studies and the documents related to the incidents have been previously released under the FOIA in the past, but they have never before been posted together, facilitating access to families and historians. In addition, the documents have been reviewed using the most current guidance, making this release the most complete of any prior releases.

 

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Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft by CHICOM Fighters (02/14/1968)Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft by CHICOM Fighters (02/14/1968)
SHOOTDOWN OF F-4 AIRCRAFT 15 APRIL 1827.PDFShootdown of F-4 Aircraft 15 April 1827
SHOOTDOWN OF F111 REPORTED 1966.PDFShootdown of F111 Reported 1966
SHOOTDOWN OF F-105 REPORTED BY DRV MIG PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR THREE 0542.PDFShootdown of F-105 Reported by DRV MIG Pilot, Follow Up Nr Three 0542
SHOOTDOWN OF F-105 BY DRV FIGHTERS 0387.PDFShootdown of F-105 by DRV Fighters 0387
SHOOTDOWN OF ENEMY AIRCRAFT REPORTED 1926.PDFShootdown of Enemy Aircraft Reported 1926
SHOOTDOWN OF AN F44 AIRCRAFT REPORTED 0272.PDFShootdown of an F44 Aircraft Reported 0272
SHOOTDOWN OF AN F-4 AIRCRAFT AND EXECUTION OF TWO PILOTS REPORTED 1890.PDFShootdown of an F-4 Aircraft and Execution of Two Pilots Reported 1890
SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED AIRCRAFT, CHANGE ONE 1943.PDFShootdown of an Allied Aircraft, Change One 1943
SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1946.PDFShootdown of an Allied Aircraft 1946
SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED A-7 AIRCRAFT 1946.PDFShootdown of an Allied A-7 Aircraft 1946
SHOOTDOWN OF AMERICAN AIRCRAFT 0130.PDFShootdown of American Aircraft 0130
SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED F-4 AIRCRAFT 1951.PDFShootdown of Allied F-4 Aircraft 1951
SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT OVER NVN, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE AND FINAL 1895.PDFShootdown of Allied Aircraft Over NVN, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1895
SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT OVER NVN 1956.PDFShootdown of Allied Aircraft Over NVN 1956
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