Casualty Recovery Operation Reports; Case 0784

Updated: 10 August 2001

These three reports and associated maps chronicle detailed search and recovery operations which were conducted in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam in an effort to obtain information and recover the remains of four United States Marines who were killed during the extraction of reconnaissance patrol "Party Line One" on 3 August, 1967.

July 1993 Initial site visit meets with local hostility.

December 1993 Return visit reaches crash site

June, 1994 Detailed archaeological investigation of site

Photographs of the Site Excavation by Sgt. Dan Seymour of the JTFFA in 1994

1:250K tactical map of Patrol area This file is in .jpg format. (104 KBytes).

1:250K tactical map showing Hue, Phu Bai, and A Shau area where Partyline One operated. The area of the patrol was in the lower center edge of the map, shown as a faint trace line beneath the "56" marker. The file is in .jpg format. (155 KBytes).

1:50K Annotated tactical map of Partyline One patrol route. This file is in .jpg format. (113 KBytes).

1:250K Detailed large tactical map showing Hue, Phu Bai, and A Shau area where Partyline One operated. This file is in .jpg format. (1.6 MBytes).

Aerial Photo of A Shau Valley showing the area of Party Line One patrol. The track shown is approximate.

Aerial Photo from the Space Shuttle of Northern I Corps showing Phu Bai, Hue, Route 1, and the A Shau area where the Party Line One operated. The track shown is approximate. The gridlines are 10k x 10k. This is a large file.

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