COMMANDER’S CORNER: LEST WE FORGET - PAGE 2 Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
Thursday, September 27, 2018 Vol. 62 No. 39
POW/MIA: Airmen give respect to missing personnel Robb Lingley 21st Space Wing Public Affairs
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - A weeklong observance was held during the annual Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Remembrance Week at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Sept. 17-21, 2018. The week included a flag raising ceremony, a 24-hour run, guest speakers, and concluded with a remembrance and retreat ceremony. Guest speakers for the event were Elaine
Mosberg, widow of MIA Capt. Henry Lee Mosberg, Vietnam War veteran and retired Army Master Sgt. Edwin Beck, a World War II POW. Henry was a pilot assigned to the 114th Assault Helicopter Company. On Sept. 26, 1966, he was assigned a combat assault mission in the Delta region of South Vietnam over Vinh Binh Province, where Henry’s Bell Huey utility helicopter was fired upon and downed at the mouth of the Son Co Chien River in approximately 9 feet of water. One soldier survived and another body
was retrieved. Henry was not found, nor was his gunner, Specialist 4 Marvin F. Phillips. “The search and rescue only lasted two days,” said Elaine. “When the aircraft was retrieved from the South China Sea my husband’s harness was determined to have been unlocked and as any good pilot knows, dead men can’t do this.”
Henry was listed MIA Sept. 28, 1966 before being listed as killed in action later in 1966 by his commander. In 2010, Elaine was informed that a body had been returned to the U.S. The body was Phillips, Henry’s gunner. “When Phillips remains were identified it See Missing personnel page 12
(U.S. Air Force photo by Robb Lingley)
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Col. Sam Johnson, 21st Space Wing vice commander, presents a lithograph to Elaine Mosburg, widow of missing in action Capt. Henry Lee Mosburg, Vietnam War veteran at the base Chapel on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Sept. 19, 2018. Henry was the pilot of a Bell Huey utility helicopter when it was shot down near the mouth of the Son Co Chien River in the Delta region in Vinh Binh Province, South Vietnam, Sept. 26, 1966. His remains were not recovered.
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(U.S. Air Force photo by Robb Lingley)
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Retired Army Master Sgt. Edwin Beck, with the help of Chief Master Sgt. Rudy Gamez, 21st Operations Group superintendent and Col. Sam Johnson, 21st Space Wing vice commander, places a prisoner of war/missing in action wreath at the front of the stage at the base Chapel on Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Sept. 19, 2018. Beck spent nearly six months at a POW camp in Oschatz, Germany, before eventually escaping in 1945.
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