THE WALL OF FACES

Just wanted to leave a note for Memorial Day. I am not related, but I wore his bracelet for almost 20 years. I met his daughter and wanted her to have it. RIP Commander.

Not a day goes by when I don't think of you. Only 2 weeks old when you left for Vietnam. I never had a chance to know you, only to hear stories from mom. 54 years passed and letters from Vietnam to home surfaced. My husband, Dave has made it possible to put a timeline together of your last few months from those 100 plus letters. I was also able to meet many people along the way with a connection to you, to hear how great a guy you were, how funny, how smart. Now when I look at my son Jacob, he reminds me of you. I will never stop searching for you. I want to bring you home.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link, the MIA status of Commander Edward James Jacobs Jr., U.S. Navy, is Non-recoverable:

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Ka7mEAC

As of the latest DPAA update (11 February 2022) CDR Jacobs is one of 1,584 Americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War.

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20220211.pdf

CDR Jacobs is one of 37 Americans whose home of record (HoR) is Washington state who remains MIA:

https://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_WASHINGTON_20220211.pdf

Both of CDR Jacobs' crewmen on the "Quizshow 09" night reconnaissance mission, LTJG James Zavocky and ADJ1 Ronald Bois Claire, are also MIA and the crew are 3 of 352 sailors who remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia and contiguous waters from the Vietnam War:

https://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_NAVY_20220211.pdf

As of 11 February 2022, the Department of Defense has accounted for 1,056 Americans formerly MIA in Southeast Asia from the Vietnam War:

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_ALL_20220211.pdf

MIA Commander Edward James Jacobs Jr., U.S. Navy, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial (Vietnam War Section - Navy Court "B") in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/jacobs%3Dedward

Information about the loss of a RA-3B Skywarrior from VAP-62 based in Guam attached to VAP-61 and launched from Da Nang piloted by MIA Commander Edward James Jacobs Jr., U.S. Navy, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over North Vietnam) on 25 August 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1321