Roger Eugene Wilson
Captain, U.S. Marine Corps
Unit: VMA 224, Detachment C
Date of Birth: 30 June 1947
Home City of Record: Norfolk VA
Date of Loss: 11 June 1972
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 202543N 1061055E
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 1
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A6A
REFNO: 1872
Other Personnel in Incident: Willam Angus, returnee
Source: Compiled by 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 Vietnam, Capt. Roger E. Wilson was an A6A pilot from Detachment C, VMA 224.
On June 11, 1972, he was sent on a combat mission over Nam Ha Province, North Vietnam. His aircraft was hit by ground fire, and crashed in a lake on the north edge of the city of Nam Dinh.
Roger E. Wilson was listed as Missing in Action.
Reports received through intelligence sources indicate that Roger was probably dead, and U.S. analysts concluded that, alive or dead, the Vietnamese definitely knew his fate. Inexplicably, however, Capt. Wilson was maintained in a Missing in Action status, rather than that of
Prisoner of War.
Roger Wilson's name was not on the 1973 list compiled by Henry Kissinger of "discrepancy" cases on which it was felt the Vietnamese had ready information.
Since the war ended, several score remains have returned from Vietnam through negotiations, but not those of Capt. Wilson. Progress on the remains issue has been tediously slow, even though reliable information indicates that the Vietnamese "stockpiled" hundreds of American bodies.
Even more frustrating is the issue of the men whom most authorities believe to be alive. U.S. Government has conducted "over 250,000 interviews" and analyzed "several million" documents since the war ended related to Americans still missing, prisoner or unaccounted for from the Vietnam war, but has been unable to make the conclusive official statement that Americans
are still held prisoner.
Critics say that the U.S. Government is unwilling to pay the price of freedom for the men who were left behind and who are still alive. Capt. Roger E. Wilson was willing to pay the price for freedom. How would he judge our actions in securing the freedom of those we left behind?
Dead or alive....please....bring Them home!!
Update...January 27, 1999. Today I visited then National Alliance Of Families homepage.
the remains of Captain Roger Eugene Wilson were returned to the United States and
positively identified.
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