 
                 CASE SYNOPSIS: DENNIS GERARD PUGH

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Name:                        Dennis Gerard Pugh
Rank/Branch:                 Capt 02/USAF
Unit:
                             Ubon Thailand
Date of Birth:               10 February 1944
Home City of Record:         Salina KS
Loss Date:                   19 March 1970
Country of Loss:             Laos
Loss Coordinates:            173100N 1054400E
Status (in 1973):            Missing In Action
Category:                    2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground:         F4D
Other Personnel In
Incident:                    Unknown

Remarks:

SYNOPSIS: Dennis Gerard Pugh was born on February 10, 1944 in Hutchi-
son, Kansas.  He attended grade school at New Cambria and high school
in Salina, where he graduated in 1962.  He attended Boy's State in
Wichita and went to the University of Kansas for one year before being
appointed to the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.  Two of his
classmates at the Academy who were also shot down and remain missing -
Mike Bosiljevac and Samuel Larry James - were wearing POW bracelets
bearing the name of Dennis Pugh at the time they were shot down.

Dennis graduated from the Academy in 1967 and attended UCLA where he
completed his master's degree in qualitative analysis-mathematical
methods.  From UCLA, Dennis went to Mather AFB in Sacramento where he
took navigator's training.  He attended Combat Crew Training and
Survival schools before he went overseas.

On September 15, 1969, Dennis was sent to Ubon, Thailand, to fly F4s,
something he had always dreamed of doing.  While flying a Forward Air
Controller mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos March 19, 1970,
he was shot down.  He ejected from the aircraft and was uninjured on
the ground at the time the enemy reached him 24 hours later.

There has been no further word of Dennis Pugh.  His family has worked
to obtain more information on Dennis since he went missing.  As the
evidence increasing that Americans ARE alive in Southeast Asia, Pugh's
family wonders if he is still alive.  The question remains, "Where is
Dennis Pugh?"  There is every reason to believe that the communist
governments of Southeast Asia know the answer to that question.
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