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MISSING
IN ACTION
STEVEN WAYNE HEITMAN
Rank/Branch:
E-5 US Army
Unit:
H&H Troop; 1st Squadron, 9th Calvary; 1st Calvary Division
Date
of Birth: 23 April 1943
Home
City of Record: Indianapolis, Indiana
Date
of Loss: 13 March 1968
Country
of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss
Corrdinates:163650N 1072618E (YD601383)
Status
(in 1973): MISSING IN ACTION
Category:2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground:
UH1B
Other Personnel
In Incident: Cleveland Evans; Jimmy L. Watson (both missing)
Source
Compiled by Homecoming II Project (919/527-8079) 01 April 1991 from one
or more
of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources,
Correspondence
with POW/MIA families, publisher sources, interviews, Copyright
1991 Homcoming
II Project.
REMARKS:
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.
SYNOPSIS:
On march
13, 1968, SP/5 Heitman, Sgt Evans, passengers, WO Jimmy
Watson,
pilot, SFC Eugene Gubbins, PFC Larry Moore and Lt. Purda, crew members
and 4 unidentified
passengers of the 101st Airborne Division were aboard a UH1H
helicopter
(tail#67-17254) which proceeded north from Phu Bai airfield on a
logistics
mission to Camp Evans, republic of Vietnam.
About 3-5
miles southeast of camp Evans, the helicopter was hit by enemy fire
and was
forced to land. All 10 persons exited to aircraft and split into man
teams in
an attempt to evade to friendly lines.
Lt. Purda
and the four 101st Airborne personnel walked to camp Evans at 2000
hours.
An intensive search was initiated, but failed to reveal any trace of the
aircraft
or the 5 missing. On March 28, elements of the 1st Calvary Division
found 2
bodies in a shallow grave in the area of the crash site. They were later
identified
as those of SFC Gubbins and PFC Moore. The fates of the other 3
remained
a mystery and the three were classified MISSING IN ACTION.
Since the
war ended, thousands of reports have convinced many authorities that
hundreds
of Americans are still held captive in Southeast Asia. The three survivors
of the
helicopter crash on March 13, 1968 could be among them. They also could
be
dead. Until
the U.S. seriously pursues his fate, we may not know with certainty what
happened
to Steven W. Heitman
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