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On DoD remains returned list Dec. 1996.
| Name: | Jlynn "Jay" Ross, Jr. |
| Rank/Branch: | E3/US Army |
| Unit: | Company C, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry (Riverine), 9th Infantry Division's Mobile Riverine Force |
| Date of Birth (DOB): | 12 August 1946 (Anniston, AL) |
| Home City of Record: | Detroit, MI |
| Loss Date: | 17 March 1968 |
| Country of Loss: | South Vietnam |
| Loss Coordinates: | 102643N 1060954E (XS275548) |
| Status (in 1973): | Missing In Action |
| Category: | 2 |
| Acft/Vehicle/Ground: | Ground |
| Refno: | 1092 |
| Other Personnel in Incident: | Raphael L. Collazo (missing) |
| Source: | Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998. |
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| Riflemen PFC Raphael Collazo and PFC Jlynn Ross were serving as pointmen for their respective units on a search mission in South Vietnam. PFC Collazo's unit, Aero Rifle Platoon of Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry, was inserted to investigate enemy activity seen in the vicinity. Collazo's unit began a sweep of the area and encountered light resistance. At approximately 1500 hours, PFC Ross's unit, an element of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry, was brought into the area to reinforce the sweep operation. After helicopters had made several attack runs on a treeline, both units started to cross a 75 meter wide rice paddy to search that treeline. PFC Ross was 2-4 meters from a camoflaged bunker when personnel inside opened fire. He was reportedly hit in the chest by 50 calibre rounds and tumbled backwards into a ditch. Due to the location of enemy fire, no one was able to reach PFC Ross. PFC Collazo had been pointman on the left flank when the enemy opened fire. He had destroyed one enemy bunker and was moving down a canal to attack the next bunker position when he was hit by a burst of automatic weapons fire. PFC Collazo was last seen falling into the canal. An attempt to reach him was repulsed by heavy enemy fire. Both U.S. units were then withdrawn from the area. This position was suspected as holding a major VC headquarters or supply dump, and was taken under fire by artillery and air strikes that night and the next day. Troop Charlie went back into the area on March 19 and conducted a sweep search for both men. The only information gathered on subsequent inquiries was a report that the VC had intercepted 2 farmers who were bringing American remains to the District Headquarters at Dai Lay in August 1974. The report could not be identified and the 2 farmers have not been heard of since their reported arrest. Several refugees reported the burial of American remains in Dinh Joung Province. These reports potentially correlate to Ross and Collazo. Another source reported ferrying 15 VC and a black American POW across a river, taking only the VC back across the river and returning to the scene later to find fresh blood on the ground and a freshly dug grave. This report potentially relates to Ross. Nearly 2500 Americans did not return from the war in Vietnam. Thousands of reports have been received indicating that some hundreds remain alive in captivity. At the time of the signing of the Paris Peace Agreements, U.S. Government intelligence knew that hundreds had been left behind. Young men like Ross and Collazo went to Vietnam not because they wanted to go, but because they believed it was right to go when their country asked it of them. We cannot afford the willing abandonment of these, our best men. |
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| JLYNN ROSS JR SSGT - E6 - Army - Regular 9th Infantry Division 30 year old Single, Negro, Male Born on Aug 12, 1946 From DETROIT, MICHIGAN His tour of duty began on Mar 17, 1968 Casualty was on Jul 26, 1977 in DINH TUONG, SOUTH VIETNAM Hostile, died while missing GROUND CASUALTY Body was not recovered Religion - PROTESTANT Panel 45E - - Line 14 |
Source: The VietNam Veterans' Memorial Wall Page. |
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