Francis Eugene Cannon, age 24, from Arizona, Maricopa county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, September 8, 1968
Death details: On November 4, 1985, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CIL-HI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Francis Eugene Cannon, missing from the Vietnam War. Corporal Cannon entered the U.S. Army from Arizona and served with Company D, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry Brigade. On January 8, 1968, his unit was ambushed by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam. He was captured during the engagement but died of dysentery and malnutrition on September 8, 1968, while held at the prisoner of war camp “Bravo.” In 1985, the Vietnamese government repatriated the remains of American POWs buried at camp “Bravo,” and U.S. investigators were able to identify CPL Cannon from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency