PUGGI, JOSEPH DAVID

                 Name: Joseph David Puggi
                 Rank/Branch: E5/US Army
                 Unit: B Troop, 1st Squad, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
                 Date of Birth: 26 November 1946
                 Home City of Record: Pleasantville NJ
                 Date of Loss: 02 February 1968
                 Country of Loss: South Vietnam
                 Loss Coordinates: 161209N 1081006E (AT960937)
                 Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
                 Category: 4
                 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
                 Refno: 1024

                 Other Personnel In Incident: Kenneth J. Patton; Joe H. 
                 Pringle; Charles Adkins; Donald Burnham (all missing)

                 Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 15 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. Updated by the 
                 P.O.W. NETWORK 1998.

                 REMARKS: CRASHSITE/PRINGLE ID FOUND

                 SYNOPSIS: Donald Burnham was the pilot of a UH1H helicopter 
                 (#66-16442) that departed Camp Evans, Quang Tri, Republic 
                 of Vietnam for Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam on February 
                 2, 1968. Also aboard were SP4 Charles Adkins, SFC Joe
                 Pringle, SSgt Joseph Puggi, passengers; and SP4 Kenneth 
                 Patton, crewchief. The personnel aboard the aircraft were 
                 all members of B Troop, 1st Squad, 9th Cavalry, 1st 
                 Cavalry Division.

                 During a ground radar-controlled approach to Da Nang 
                 Airbase, the controller lost radio contact with the 
                 helicopter and subsequently lost radar contact. The 
                 last positive position of the aircraft was 12 miles 
                 north of Da Nang.

                 After attempts to contact Captain Burnham by radio 
                 failed, ramp checks were conducted by another pilot 
                 from his unit. Search of the area to the north of 
                 Da Nang failed to locate the missing aircraft.

                 On May 28, 1968, a crashed and burned UH1H 
                 helicopter (tail #6442) was located in the 
                 appropriate vicinity and a search party 
                 recovered an ID tag belonging to SFC Pringle, 
                 several weapons, and some human bones. The ID 
                 tag and weapons were given to an unidentified 
                 major; subsequent attempts to trace the weapons 
                 have been unsuccessful.

                 All human remains were given to the U.S. Army 
                 Mortuary at Da Nang, and were subsequently 
                 determined unidentifiable. Search attempts 
                 terminated on November 16, 1972. Because of 
                 the density of the underbrush, no attempt to 
                 recover further remains was made. The crash 
                 site was photographed in July 1974, at which 
                 time it became known that parts of the aircraft 
                 had been recovered by a Vietnamese woodcutter. 
                 No evidence of human remains were found in the 
                 area.

                 Donald Burnham's photograph was identified by a 
                 Vietnamese rallier as having been a prisoner of 
                 war. CIA analysis failed to determine why 
                 Burnham's photo was selected, as neither he nor 
                 the other crew were seen by returned POWs.

                 If it were not for over 10,000 reports of Americans 
                 still held captive in Southeast Asia, the families 
                 of the men aboard UH1H #6442 might be able to give 
                 up hope of seeing their sons and brothers again. 
                 But as long as there is evidence that even one is 
                 alive, the possibility exists that any of the crew 
                 of the UH1H lost on February 2, 1968 could be alive.