The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database
United States House of Representatives
Select Committee on Missing Persons
in Southeast Asia
House Resolution 335 established the House Select Committee on
Missing Persons in Southeast Asia. Congressman G.V. Montgomery
chaired the Committee and its members included Congressmen Henry
B. Gonzalez, John J. Moakley, Richard Ottinger, Thomas Harkin,
Jim Lloyd, Paul McCloskey, Benjamin Gilman, Tennyson Guyer, and
Congresswoman Patricia Shroeder. The Committee conducted a 15-month
study and investigation of the problems associated with American
servicemen and civilians who were still missing as a result of
combat operations in Indochina and have not been accounted for
by the governments of Indochina. The Committee's Final Report was
issued on December 13, 1976.
The purpose of the Committee was "to conduct a full and complete
investigation and study of (1) the problem of United States servicemen
still identified as missing in action, as well as those known dead
whose bodies have not been recovered as a result of military operations
in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and the problem
of United States civilians identified as missing or unaccounted
for as well as those known dead whose bodies have not been recovered
in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; (2) the need
for additional international inspection teams to determine whether
there are servicemen still held as prisoners of war or civilians
held captive or unwillingly detained in the aforementioned areas."
U.S. House of Representatives
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