TIMOTHY SAMUEL OWEN

  Name: Timothy Samuel Owen
  Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
  Unit: Company D, 1st Battalion,
        503rd Infantry, 173d Airborne Brigade
  Date of Birth: 25 December 1946 (Mobile AL)
  Home City of Record: Rochester NY
  Date of Loss: 29 June 1968
  Country of Loss: South Vietnam
  Loss Coordinates: 135615N 1082630E (BR238418)
  Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
  Category: 4
  Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
  Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)

  SYNOPSIS: PFC Timothy S. Owen was assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion,
  503rd Infantry, 173d Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. On June 29, 1968, his
  unit was conducting a night ambush about 25 miles east-southeast of
  Pleiku in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam. At about 2400 hours, Owen
  left the ambush position, and it was believed that he fell into a stream,
  became disoriented and moved away from the squad's position. Search efforts
  were begun within fifteen minutes and continued for four days. A combat
  tracker team (tracker dogs and handlers) and helicopters assisted in the
  search. Patrols in the area continued to search as late as July 6, but no
  trace of Timothy Owen was ever found. Timothy Owen was declared Missing
  In Action because no evidence was ever found that he was dead. His disap-
  pearance remains a mystery,as he did not return in 1973 with 591 Americans
  who were released from various POW camps in Vietnam at the time.

  Over 10,000 reports relating to Americans prisoner, missing and unaccounted
  for in Southesat Asia have been received by the U.S. Government since 1975.
  A Pentagon panel concluded in 1986 that there were at least 100 men still
  alive. Timothy Owen could be one of these men. How much longer must they
  wait for this country to bring them home?

  Source:Compiled by Homecoming II Project 30 June 1990 from one or more of
  the following:raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence
  with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.