Appendix C to Task Force Russia Biweekly Report for 9 October 1992
Subject: List of 71

[KWE Note: This list was supplied to the Korean War Educator by John Zimmerlee, who works tirelessly to unearth data about missing Korean War veterans.]

2. The following actions were taken to refine the list:

a. The TFR-3 document was translated by OSIA;

b. The translated document was forwarded by DASD (IS-POW/MIA) to the USAF Casualty and Memorial Affairs Office (Missing Persons Branch) where most of the names were correctly identified by Ms. Jeanne Lafontaine.  Further coordination by TFR with Ms. Lefantaine led to the identification of more names, including three that were USMC.

c. On 24 September 1992 the Russians provided a list of 59 names which had many of the same names as the List of 71.  Rand Corporation's analysis of this second list revealed the identifies of several more names.  Forty-three names appeared on both lists.  Most of the 43 names were listed in the same order with the same information on both lists.

d. Using all this information, the attached Corrected List of 59 with the correctly identified and spelled names was created.

3. The analysis revealed that one name (No. 18) had been duplicated and that one name was that of an Australian (Pinstone - No. 46).  Therefore the List of 71 actually contains 69 names.

a. One name (Wilkins - No. 6) is listed as USMC but has not been identified.

b. Four names are listed without service affiliation and have not been identified (spellings are uncertain):

1. No. 36 - MacKenzie
    
2. No. 57 - Frank
    
3. No. 69 - Obney
    
4. No. 71 - Hark

c. Of the remaining 64 names, 61 are USAF personnel and three are USMC personnel.  Fifty-six of these personnel were returned alive to military control (RMC) after the end of hostilities as determined by the USAF Casualty Office.  The remains of Howard P. Miller, Jr. were returned to military control as well.  The Australian was also returned alive.

d. Seven identified names were not returned to military control and were later declared dead, most of them after the end of hostilities when a presumptive finding of death was made "when evidence considered sufficient to establish the fact of death was received by the Secretary of the Air Force.  They are listed below:

1. No. 32 - Hart, Alvin D., Jr., Airman 1/C, USAF
    
2. No. 33 - Weese, Henry D., 1LT, USAF
    
3. No. 34 - Van Voorhis, Paul E., 1LT, USAF
    
4. No. 51 - Johnson, Johnny M., SGT, USAF
    
5. No. 56 - McDonough, Charles E., CPT, USAF
    
6. No. 66 - Bergman, Louis H., SGT, USAF
    
7. No. 67 - Unruh, Halbert Caloway, Aviator, USAF

The Corrected List of 71

[KWE Note: This list was supplied to the Korean War Educator by John Zimmerlee, who works tirelessly to unearth data about missing Korean War veterans.]

*See note on ranks.

Note on Ranks: When the Russian list and U.S. records give different ranks for the same individual, both are included with the Russian listed rank first and the U.S. rank in parenthesis.  The difference may be explained by the U.S. practice to promote individuals by schedule even if the soldier is missing in action.  This practice explains that almost all the second lieutenants on the Russian list are first lieutenants in the U.S. records maintained by the USAF Casualty Office.