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>Howdy Julia; > >The POW Network at >http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/g/g380.htm says the >following: > >GRAHAM, GILBERT JAMES > >Name: Gilbert James Graham >Rank/Branch: E3/US Navy Reserves >Unit: Commander River Squadron 5, River Sector 51, >River Patrol Boat 100 >Date of Birth: 24 February 1946 (London, Ontario, >Canada) >Home City of Record: Anaheim CA >Date of Loss: 28 September 1967 >Country of Loss: South Vietnam >Loss Coordinates: 101600N 1060301E (XS150350) >Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered >Category: 5 >Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: PBR 100 >Refno: 0843 > >Other Personnel In Incident: Joseph T. Musetti >(missing) > >Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 June 1990 >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 1998. > >REMARKS: > >SYNOPSIS: Seaman Gilbert Graham and Engineman Petty >Officer Second Class >Joseph Musetti were crewmembers aboard River Patrol >Boat #100 assigned to >Commander River Squadron 5, River Sector 51. On the >afternoon of September >28, 1967, Graham was the forward gunner aboard PBR 100 >on a routine patrol >of the Mekong River approximately five miles northeast >of Vinh Long, South >Vietnam. Musetti was a boat captain. > >The commander of the craft was in the process of >investigating watercraft >near the mouth of a canal when it received enemy >rocket fire. Three rocket >rounds struck the boat killing Graham and Musetti. The >resultant explosion >and fire consumed the boat and made it impossible to >remove the bodies. From >the survivors of the incident, it was determined that >Graham and Musetti >were killed instantly when the rockets exploded >nearby. Both crewmen were >placed in Killed/Body Not Recovered status. > >In 1985, a private citizen obtained a lengthy document >through the Freedom >of Information Act describing in great detail a POW >camp near Hue where many >American prisoners of war were held. Details of the >report were confirmed by >returned POWs who were held there. The source was >shown photos of missing >men who did not return and identified several - some >as "positive", and >others as "possible". On the "possible" list was the >name Richard Musetti, >USN. There is no other Musetti missing. > >The Department of Defense states that the source is a >liar. > >The two crewmembers of PBR 100 are listed with honor >among the missing >because their remains were never found. Their cases >seem fairly clear. For >others who are listed missing, resolution is not as >simple. Many were known >to have survived their loss incident. Quite a few were >in radio contact with >search teams and describing an advancing enemy. Some >were photographed or >recorded in captivity. Others simply vanished without >a trace. > >Reports continue to mount that we abandoned hundreds >of Americans to the >enemy when we left Southeast Asia. While the >crewmembers of PBR 100 may not >be among them, one can imagine their proud willingness >to cruise one more >mile of river to help bring them home. > >If you need help in plotting the military map >coordinates of XS 150350 on one of those maps that I >referred you to, please let me know, but "5 mi. >northeast of Vung Long City (not Province)" should be >good enough since the blue-line grid on those maps are >separated by exactly 10 Km. and 5 mi. = approximately >8 Km. You can figure it out.
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