Original Vintage 1970\'s POW Bracelet Nickel Silver CAPT ROBERT C EDMUNDS JR 1968 for Sale

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Original Vintage 1970\'s POW Bracelet Nickel Silver CAPT ROBERT C EDMUNDS JR 1968 For Sale

$Original Vintage 1970\'s POW Bracelet Nickel Silver CAPT ROBERT C EDMUNDS JR 1968$
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Original Vintage 1970\'s POW Bracelet Nickel Silver CAPT ROBERT C EDMUNDS JR 1968:
$34.95

NEW OLD STOCK,ORIGINAL, VIETNAM PERIOD P.O.W. M.I.A. BRACELET PRODUCED IN NICKEL SILVER AND SO MARKED INSIDE BAND. FADED FROM LONG TERM STORAGE!BRACELET BODY IS IMPRESSED \"CAPT ROBERT C. EDMUNDS JR. USAF, AUG 29 1968\" DISTRIBUTED BY THE ORGANIZATION - \"CONCERN FOR POWs\" FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.BRACELETS WERE PRODUCED BETWEEN 1970-1976! SYPNOSIS: On 27 October 1968, then1st Lt. Robert C. Edmunds, Jr. was the pilot of an F105D in a flight of aircraft conducting a mid-afternoon armed reconnaissance mission. The target was the NVA\'s staging area where enemy convoys were organized prior to beginning theirtrip toward the acknowledged war zone. The entire area north of this majorgateway into the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail was heavily defended and denselypopulated with NVA troops. The staging area was located approximately 5 milesdue north of the Ban Karai Pass and 29 miles east-southeast of Dong Hoi,North Vietnam.

At 1610 hours, 1st Lt. Edmunds initiated an attack pass on the target located in the rugged jungle covered mountains roughly 2 miles east of Route 137, the primary road running through the Ban Karai Pass. Other pilots witnessed his aircraft as it was struckby enemy ground fire. They also saw it catch fire, go into a dive and crash. The other pilots saw no parachute and heard no emergency beeper. Further, because of the location of loss being in an area under total enemy control, no formal search and rescue (SAR) operation was possible. Robert Edmundswas immediately listed Missing in Action.