
                 CASE SYNOPSIS:  GROSSE, CHRISTOPHER A. JR.

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Name:				Christopher A. Grosse, Jr.	
Rank/Branch:			E5/US Army		
Unit:				Company A, 1st Btn, 7th Cavalry
				1st Cavalry Division
Date of Birth:			06 January 1945			
Home City of Record:		Harlingen TX
Date of Loss:			28 March 1968			
Country of Loss:		South Vietnam	
Loss Coordinates:		162756N 1071859E	
Status (in 1973):		Missing In Action	
Category:			2		
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:	Ground     
Other Personnel
In Incident:                    none missing

REMARKS:

SYNOPSIS:  On March 28, 1968, PFC Grosse was a rifleman assigned to Company A,
1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division on a search and destroy
mission in Thua Thien Province, Republic of Vietnam.  While his platoon was
moving in file down a trail, with Grosse as the second man, the platoon was
ambushed by an enemy force.

The point man, PFC Johnson, who was 8-9 meters ahead of Grosse, observed him
fall, wounded, with blood on his head and neck. Due to the situation, Johnson
did not have time to double back to see if PFC Grosse was alive.  Johnson said,
however, that Grosse lay completely still and appeared to be dead.

The intense enemy fire forced the patrol to withdraw from the area without PFC
Grosse.  Efforts to reach him later that day were unsuccessful, due to hostile
fire in the area.  A search of the area the next day failed to locate Grosse.

It was not uncommon for the Viet Cong to bury American casualties, and in doing
so bury them in places so hidden that they could not be found.  Since Grosse
was wounded, it is possible that this occurred.  However, since his death is
not certain, it is also quite reasonable to expect that he could have been
captured as his platoon withdrew.

Since the war ended, thousands of reports of Americans still alive in the hands
of the governments of Southeast Asia have been received, convincing many
authorities that hundreds of men are still captive, waiting for the country
they proudly served to bring them home.  One of them could be PFC Grosse.
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