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PREVEDEL, CHARLES FRANCIS
Name: Charles Francis Prevedel
Rank/Branch: E5/US Army Special Forces
Unit: Recon Team 5, Detachment B-52 DELTA, 5th Special Forces
Date of Birth: 18 November 1943 (St.Louis MO)
Home City of Record: Florissant MO
Date of Loss: 17 April 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 160126N 1073546E (YC778732)
Status (In 1973): Missing In Action
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel In Incident: Charles V. Newton; Douglas E. Dahill; three
South Vietnamese Special Forces personnel
REMARKS:
SYNOPSIS: SSgt. Charles V. Newton, Sgt. Charles F. Prevedel, SP4 Douglas E.
Dahill and 3 unidentified Vietnamese were inserted into Quang Nam Province in
South Vietnam as part of Detachment B52 Delta's Reconnaissance Team 6 on April
14, 1969.
On April 16, the team reported making contact with the enemy, but radioed that
it was continuing the patrol.
On April 17, the team made its scheduled morning radio contact and reported the
team's position. At 206 hours, the team reported to Control and Command that
they were in a stream bed and had been hit hard, and requested air strikes.
Their location was then in Thua Thien Province, 9 miles from Laos. A Forward
Air Controller (FAC) sent into the area was unable to make radio contact with
the team. At 1400 hours, thunderstorms in the area prevented the insertion of a
relief force.
The next day, a BDA (Bomb Damage Assessment) team was inserted to search for
Team 6. They encountered Viet Cong personnel wearing tiger striped fatigues and
bearing rifles and grenades of the type used by Team 6. A thorough search of
the stream bed and surrounding area yielded no trace of Team 6. Numerous air
and ground searches of Team 6 evasion route were conducted with no positive
result.
A Viet Cong reported that in mid-May, 1969, he had seen two U.S. POWs in Quang
Nam province, exact location unspecified. The report was correlated to SSgt.
Newton and Sgt. Prevedel on the basis of time, location and compatability of
the physical descriptions.
Four photos from a Christmas, 1969 film of POWs were correlated by CIA to
Charles Newton, and one to Charles Prevedel. There has been no further
information to surface about Dahill. The Vietnamese deny having any knowledge
of any of the members of Team 6.
By mid-1989, nearly 10,000 reports had been received by the U.S. Government
relating to Americans still missing in Southeast Asia. Many authorities believe
there are still several hundred Americans still alive in captivity. Charles
Prevedel's father died in 1988, never knowing if the faces in the Christmas
film were his son and his partner, or an uncanny coincidence. The Vietnamese
aren't talking, and unfortunately, neither is the U.S. Government.
It's time we brought our men home.