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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Rockwood Harvey.

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JACK ROCKWOOD HARVEY

Captain · U.S. Air Force

September 14, 1947 – November 28, 1972

Service record

Jack Rockwood Harvey, of Lake Worth, Florida, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on November 28, 1972, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 93

Position of Panel 1W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
421 TAC FTR SQ UDORN AB
Born
September 14, 1947
Home of record
Lake Worth, Florida (Palm Beach County)

Casualty

Date of loss
November 28, 1972
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1972; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1972, 21 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 93

From Lake Worth

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.