HUBIA JUDE GUILLORY
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PFC - Army - Selective Service
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
1st Cav Division (AMBL)
Unit: Company D, 5th Btn, 7th
Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
20 year old Married, Caucasian,
Male
Born on Oct 17, 1947
Date of Birth: 17 November 1947
Home City of Record: New Orleans
LA
His tour of duty began on Apr
25, 1968
Date of Loss: 25 April 1968
in THUA THIEN, SOUTH VIETNAM
Loss Coordinates: 162133N 1070641E
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body
Not Recovered
Refno: 1145
Religion
ROMAN CATHOLIC
Panel 52E - - Line 5
Other Personnel In Incident:
Daniel M. Kelley; David L. Scott (missing)
Category: 2
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.
REMARKS:KIA
AMBUSH - REM LEFT BEHIND - J
SYNOPSIS:
On April 28, 1968, SP4 Kelley, PFC Guillory and SP4 Scott were on
a search and clear mission in
the vicinity of Thua Thien Province, South
Vietnam. They were riflemen
in Company D, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st
Cavalry Division. The
unit was ambushed by an enemy force.
Kelley was shot in the neck and
died. Scott was shot in the chest, and
Guillory was shot and then hand
grenades were thrown within 3-4 feet of him.
The three were observed for
a minimum of two hours, and no signs of life
were detected.
Because of heavy fire, the unit
broke into small groups in order to escape
and evade, and had to leave
their casualties behind. A search of the area
was attempted three times, but
could not be completed because of hostile
action.
In 1985, a private citizen obtained
a lengthy document describing in great
detail a prison camp near Hue,
South Vietnam, and identified a number of
Americans he had seen held their
by their photographs. Some of them he
positively identified, and another
list he considered "possible". A number
of the Americans he identified
had already been released from Vietnam in
1973. Daniel M. Kelley was one
of the names on the "possible" list.
Guillory, Kelley and Scott are
listed with honor among the missing because
no remains were recovered.
Despite the possible identification of the
Vietnamese source of Kelley's
photo, their cases seem quite clear. For
others who are listed missing,
resolution is not as simple. Thousands of
reports such as the one received
in 1985 have surfaced since the end of the
war, convincing many authorities
that hundreds of Americans were left behind
alive. There can be no
"Peace With Honor" as long as our men are held in
enemy hands.
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