THE WALL OF FACES

I am the Curator of the POW/MIA Bracelet Display in the Vietnam Hangar of the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California where we now have over two thousand bracelets honoring POWs, MIAs and KIAs and would be honored to include your bracelet in our Display should you have one. If you no longer have your bracelet or wish to keep yours or are an immediate family member (spouse, fiancé, sibling, child, grandchild, cousin, niece, nephew, or close friend) I can order one for the Display in your name with funds donated by our Museum visitors.
https://palmspringsairmuseum.org/vietnam-pow-bracelet-display/
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 760-464-6843 [email protected]

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. It remains my fervent hope you will be returned home after the passage of so many years.

The Department of Defense conducted ceremonies at the Pentagon and at Hickam AFB on Friday, 16 September 2022 in commemoration of POW/MIA Recognition Day. DoD Officials the 1,582 MIAs from the Vietnam War as well as all those still unaccounted for from WWII, the Korean War, the Cold War and other conflicts. Since the 2021 Ceremony, DPAA has positively identified 2 Vietnam War MIAs. Colonel Wallace Gourley Hynds Jr., USMA Class of 1945, is one of those 1,582 MIAs unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. He is also one of 10 graduates from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point who is still MIA. The other 9 USMA MIAs (rank, name & class) are: (1) Col. Herbert Brennan (1947); (2) Col. John Armstrong (1949); (3) Maj. Carl Mitchell (1950); (4) Col. Joseph Austin (1952); (5) Col. Lawrence Tatum (1953); (6) Col. Robert Stewart (1956); (7) CPT H.R. "Rocky" Versace (1959); (8) Capt. James Dawson (1963); & (9) MAJ James “Cliff” McKittrick (1964).

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the MIA status of Colonel Wallace Gourley Hynds Jr., USMA Class of 1945, USAF, is ACTIVE PURSUIT:

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000KZXZEA4

The latest DPAA update (10 September 2021) lists 1,584 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War. Col. Hynds is one of those 1,584 MIAs. He is also one of 10 USMA graduates who remain MIA.

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20210910.pdf

Remembered on this POW/MIA Recognition Day 2021.

On the remembrance of your 96th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

POW-MIA...Never Forget

HOOAH