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STONEBRAKER, KENNETH ARNOLD
Name: Kenneth Arnold Stonebraker
Rank/Branch: O3/US Air Force
Unit: 11th Tactical Recon Squadron, Udorn Airfield, Thailand
Date of Birth: 15 December 1938
Home City of Record: Hobart IN
Date of Loss: 28 October 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 172500N 1062700E (XE540261)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF4C
Other Personnel In Incident: William H. Stroven (missing)
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: Capt. William Stroven was the pilot and Capt. Kenneth Stonebraker the navigator aboard an RF4C Phantom jet assigned a photo-reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam on October 28, 1968. The aircraft departed its base at Udorn Airfield, Thailand for its target, which included an ammunition supply dump near Hanoi.
As the aircraft was over Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam, it was lost from radar. No trace was ever found of the aircraft of its crew. The last known location was over 200 miles from the intended target, and about 15 miles west of the city of Dong Hoi.
Stroven and Stonebraker were declared Missing in Action, and public record reveals very little more about their fates. The U.S. Government determined that there is a good chance that the Vietnamese know the fate of Stroven, but are uncertain whether Stonebraker's fate is known.
Nearly 2500 Americans remain missing or otherwise unaccounted for in Vietnam. Since the war ended, nearly 10,000 reports concerning Americans still alive in Southeast Asia have been received by the U.S. Government. Many authorities are completely convinced that hundreds of Americans are now held captive.
One set of critics say that the U.S. has done little to address the issue of live POWs, preferring the politically safer issue of remains return. Others place the blame on the Vietnamese, for using the issue of POW/MIA to their political advantage. Regardless of blame, no living American has returned through the efforts of negotiations between the countries, and the reports continue to pour in. Are Kenneth Stonebraker and William Stroven alive somewhere in Southeast Asia wondering when their country will bring them home? Are we doing enough to bring these men home?
Prepared by Homecoming II Project 01 December 1989
TRAMPSKI, DONALD JOSEPH
Name: Donald Joseph Trampski
Rank/Branch: E2/US Army
Unit: Company B, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry, 4th Infantry
Division
Date of Birth: 16 August 1948 (Michigan City IN)
Home City of Record: Chesterton IN
Date of Loss: 16 September 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 134039N 1080718E (AR888138)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 3
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: (None missing)
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: PFC Donald J. Trampski was serving as a rifleman with his unit on an operation in central Pleiku Province, South Vietnam when the unit was required to cross a Montagnard bridge. Trampski lost his footing and fell into the river below. At the time, there was a severe rain storm in progress and the river was swollen with a vast current.
PFC Trampski was last seen in the water, swimming about 30 yards from the bridge. Searches were conducted 300 meters along the banks and continued for 3 weeks with no success. Because no body was ever found for Trampski, it was never known for certain that he died. The possibility existed that he was captured, and he was classified Missing In Action.
The area in which the unit was operating was far from any formal city, and, as no enemy was present at that time, it is not known if the enemy knew his fate.
Trampski is among nearly 2500 Americans who remain missing in Indochina. Unlike "MIAs" from other wars, most of these men can be accounted for. Tragically, nearly 10,000 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. One of them could be Donald J. Trampski.
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