WISCONSIN
10th Anniversary 

National Pow-Mia Balloon Launch
Milwaukee,Wisconsin
"MEMORIAL DAY"

OUR ADOPTED POW/MIA

ACOSTA-ROSARIO, HUMBERTO

Name: Huberto Acosta-Rosario
Rank/Branch: E3/US Army
Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment 25th Infantry
Division
Date of Birth: 15 January 1947
Home City of Record: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date of Loss: 22 August 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 111535N 1062023E (XT462468)
Status (in 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Refno: 1258

Other Personnel in Incident: (Philip T. DeLorenzo, Jr.,  killed, body recovered)

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. SYNOPSIS: Huberto Acosta-Rosario was born January 15, 1947.His home at the time he was lost was Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. On August 22, 1968, PFC Acosta-Rosario was serving as a machine gunner on a reconnaissance enforce operation when his unit came underheavy attack by North Vietnamese Regulars and were forced to withdraw. They were in the area of Ben Cui rubber plantation, Tay Ninh Province, near Highway 4 in Tactical Zone III. The Unit had established blocking positions in the vicinity when they came under attack. During the withdrawal, Acosta-Rosario became separated from the rest of his unit. After regrouping, it was determined that PFC Acosta-Rosario and another machine gunner, Philip T. De Lorenzo, Jr, were missing from their platoons. After artillery and helicopters had passed suppressive fire into the area, Company B moved back into its original position. In the hours that followed, extensive searches were conducted by B Company.  De Lorenzo's body was located and extracted, and both men's M-60 machine guns were found. fresh graves in the area were investigated, but no further U.S. remains were found. There was no other trace of Acosta-Rosario. Two subsequent intelligence reports received and analyzed by the U.S.Government indicate that Acosta-Rosario was captured in this operation, although the Vietnamese continue to deny knowledge of him or his fate. Huberto Acosta-Rosario was last seen wearing a t-shirt, jungle fatigue pants, a steel pot and a gold Seiko watch. If he is one of the several hundred Americans that evidence indicates are live, he has spent all of his adult life in captivity. His family would like to know if he is dead or if he is alive.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was initially conceived with one overriding purpose -- to bring long overdue honor and recognition to the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives in Vietnam

SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN TOUCH

~THEY WERE OUR FATHERS~

To locate, unite and provide support to Sons, Daughters and other family members of those who died or remain missing as a result of the Vietnam War; to produce a quarterly newsletter providing important information to all SDIT stakeholders; to promote healing via networking and special projects, to regularly address high schools and college classes in hopes of providing education on the historical and emotional legacy of war.

 VIETNAM SEARCH CASUALTY SEARCH ENGINE   

  .The purpose of No Quarter is to allow a search of the US government casualty 
list for Vietnam

DEFENSE POW?MISSING PERSONNEL OFFICE
Welcome to the home page of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
 (DPMO). The information assembled on the following pages is to assist 
readers in understanding the U.S. Government effortto achieve the fullest 
possible accounting of our missing in action -- from all wars. U.S. military 
and civilian personnel are at work daily in locations across the globe, seeking 
information from our former enemies. The information here is the result
 of years of painstaking analysis and intelligence reporting. Additional 
case-specific information, both classified and unclassified, is available to 
the primary next-of-kin of our missing Americans.   
                               

The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database
This database has been established to assist researchers interested in 
investigating the U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. military
 personnel listed as unaccounted for as of December 1991. The title of this
 collection is "Correlated and Uncorrelated Information Relating to 
Missing Americans in Southeast Asia." The documents are declassified by
 the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) and released to the Federal 
Research Division, Library of Congress, for 
public access. 
The Virtual Wall contains personal remembrances of letters, photographs, 
poetry, and citations honoring those women and men named on the Vietnam 
Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. The US National Park Service  maintains
 the real Wall. 
                                                
THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL PAGE
THE WALL-USA     
  






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