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BROWN, JAMES AUSTON
Name: James Auston Brown
Rank/Branch: E4/US Army
Unit: 362nd Engineer Company, 588th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer
Brigade
Date of Birth: 18 September 1949
Home City of Record: Humboldt TN
Date of Loss: 12 August 1970
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 112518N 1061627E (XT390628)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Boat
Refno: 1656
Other Personnel in Incident: (none 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 August 12, 1970, SP4 James A. Brown was serving as an engineer in South Vietnam. He was assigned to the 32nd Engineer Company, 588th Battalion. At abou 1730 hours, while bathing in a river in Tay Ninh Province(about 25 miles west of the city of Chon Thanh), SP4 Brown lost his footing and was swept downstream. Immediate rescue efforts were made, but were
unsuccessful. The next day, extensive water, ground and aerial searches were made without success. SP4 Brown was on a non-duty position at the time hewas lost.
Although some U.S. Government records state that SP4 Brown was lost on a boat, U.S. Army records relate the loss to a drowning in the river, and no mention is made of a boat.
James Austin is one of nearly 2500 Americans who are still missing from the Vietnam War. Although it seems clear that Brown died the day he was missing,he is listed among the missing because no remains were ever found to return home.
The cases of others who are missing are not as clear. Some were knowncaptives; others were in radio contact with search teams. Still others were alive and well when last seen, but simply vanished.
Since American military involvement in Southeast Asia ended in 1975,thousands of refugee reports have been received by the U.S. Government indicating to many authorities that hundreds of Americans are still alive,held captive by communist governments of Southeast Asia. Reports continue tocome in, haunting not only those who care for these men and want them home, but also those who fear for the next generation who goes to fight for
their country.
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What is Operation Just Cause?
1. Operation Just Cause is a non funded assembly of persons from around the world, united in their desire to achieve the fullest possible accounting of Americans missing and unaccounted during the Vietnam war and all wars.
2. The objective of Operation Just Cause is for individuals to adopt an unaccounted for American and work within the law to obtain that accounting from the governments of the United States, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and the former USSR.
3. In order to achieve that accounting, Operation Just Cause members communicate with elected officials in the US and abroad, urging that they use their influence to insure:
Immediate and thorough investigation of all reports of Live Sightings of American Prisoners in SE Asia and the Liberation of any surviving POWs still in captivity; Recovery, positive identification, and return to American soil of the remains of personnel classified as Missing In Action. When remains are recovered, full disclosure of where they were recovered and when.
4. Members of Operation Just Cause do not solicit contributions and each member funds her/his own efforts to promote awareness of the POW/MIA issue. To that end, Operation Just Cause has developed Net Operations. This is comprised of an on-line adoption program, a ring, an on-line newsletter (currently unavailable), and a site development program to assist like-minded people in 'building' individual sites around the world to facilitate these goals.
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