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Last Rank
Staff Sergeant
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Last Service Branch
Infantry
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Last Primary MOS
11B20-Infantryman
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Last MOS Group
Infantry (Enlisted)
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Primary Unit
1973-1976, POW/MIA
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Service Years
1968 - 1973
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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth
1946 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
SGT James E. Reece, III (Team Leader, Vietnam Profiles)
to remember
Bush, Elbert Wayne, Jr., SSG.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
Jackson |
Last Address
Jackson
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Casualty Date
Jan 08, 1973 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died while Missing |
Reason
Air Loss, Crash - Land |
Location
Quang Tri (Vietnam) |
Conflict
Vietnam War |
Location of Interment
Parkway Cemetery - Kosciusko, Mississippi |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
01W 109 |
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Last Known Activity
At one point prior to enlisting in the Army, Sgt. Bush had attended Arkansas State University.
On 8 January 1973, SSgt. Elbert Bush was one of three passengers from the Military Assistance Command Army Advisory Group that departed Landing Zone Sally in Quang Tri Province en route to Quang Tri City (in support of Vietnamese Airborne Division in Quang Tri and Thua Thien Provinces).
The aircraft, a UH-1H tail number 69-15619 from the 62nd Aviation Company, 1st Aviation Brigade, was shot down. Unbeknownst at the time, his remains, along with three other men, were buried by local villagers.
SSgt. Bush was listed as MIA until his remains were found (1996), identified (1999), and interred in Parkway Cemetery in Kosciusko, Mississippi .
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Comments/Citation
Remains: 1976 status: Body Not Recovered. Found later.
Repatriated: 08/27/1996 (Returned to US soil)
Identified: 10/04/1999
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