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1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 min. 32 sec.) ; 286082697 bytes |
| Summary |
Between 1961 and 1973, American warplanes flew more than a million missions over Vietnam. More than eight and a half thousand American aircraft were lost during the conflict. By the end of the war, around 1300 pilots would be declared 'missing in action', a military expression that many families were hearing for the first time. This is the story of the ongoing search for Major Herman Knapp and Lieutenant David Austin, two of those men who went missing in action, flying a dangerous mission over North Vietnam in the spring of 1967. It's a search led by a unique military unit. JPAC, or the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command. It is the unit responsible for searching for, identifying and bringing home all missing American servicemen from all previous wars. In the 70s, the wife of Major Herman Knapp, Helene Knapp, became the national leader of an organisation that campaigned for the accounting of all missing American servicemen. But now, after more than three decades, she wants the search called off so that closure can be brought about. From the UK, in English) (Documentary Series) (Final) |
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Broadcast 2009-12-17 at 19:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Air pilots, Military.
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Missing persons -- Investigation.
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Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968)
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Vietnam War (1961-1975)
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United States.
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Vietnam.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Connell, Sam, contributor
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Hodges, Rex, contributor
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Johnson, Lyndon, contributor
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Knapp, Helene, contributor
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Praed, Michael, cast
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Smith, Carol, contributor
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Waddng, Michael, director
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