THE WALL OF FACES

To his family, I have his MIA braclet and am wondering if his family would like to have it.............

I have had the POWMIA bracelet for Robert "Chuck" O'Hara for the past 40 something years. Just recently I found the site and learned that his remains have been found. I want his family to know that I have shared my bracelet and what it means to my students for many years. He has not been forgotten. My God Bless his family.

On February 6, 1969, pilot CW2 Charles I. Stanley, aircraft commander 1LT David E. Padgett, crew chief SP5 Robert C. O'Hara, door gunner PFC Eugene F. Christiansen, and passengers LTC Donald E. Parsons, 1LT Ronald D. Briggs, and MAJ Vu Vanh Phao, ARVN, were aboard a UH-1H (serial #67-17499) on a resupply mission in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. While in route from Landing Zone Vandergrift to LZ Tornado, 1LT Padget contacted the LZ Tornado radio operator at about 1100 hours and stated that due to poor weather conditions and poor visibility, the flight was returning to LZ Vandergrift. At that time, the radio operator at LZ Tornado could hear the helicopter northeast of his location, which sounded as if it were heading in a northerly direction. When the aircraft failed to return to LZ Vandergrift, a coordinated search and rescue operation was initiated and continued for seven consecutive days, finding nothing. However, on the morning of February 7, Crown, an airborne control aircraft, reported receiving radio beeper signals several times from the general vicinity of where Lt. Padgett's aircraft was last reported. The beeper signals were estimated to emanate from that general direction. The source of the signals was never determined. The area in which the aircraft was estimated to go down has been dubbed "Antenna Valley" and is located west of Cam Lo and on the backside of Camp Carrol. The area was occupied by NVA regulars, and was never cleared. On-site search was not possible at that time. In 1993 remains were returned to the United States that were positively identified in 1996 as the crew and passengers from aircraft #67-17499. [Taken from pownetwork.org]

I have a POW bracelet with your name that my mom got for me when I was a kid.
God Bless you and your family, rest in peace.

When I was a child my mother got all of us children a POW/MIA bracelet. Mine was Robert O'Hara's. I would like to send that bracelet to his family. It meant a lot to me to wear it all the years that I did and maybe it would mean something to his family to have this. I wondered about him all this time, who he was and where his family might be. I had my mother get a rubbing from the wall for me many years ago when she was in DC. If a family member would like me to send them this bracelet please contact me at [email protected]