Pool, Jerry Lynn
Army Captain

Jerry Lynn Pool, age 25, from Freeport, Illinois, Stephenson county.

Spouse: Darlene
Children: Son, 3

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, March 24, 1970
Death details: On February 15, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Captain Jerry Lynn Pool, missing from the Vietnam War. Captain Pool joined the U.S. Army from Illinois and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On March 24, 1970, he was a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia, that was extracted from the mission area by a UH-1H Iroquois. After picking up the patrol, the Iroquois suffered an explosion that caused it to crash. Captain Pool was killed in the incident. Heavy enemy presence in the area prevented ground investigations of the UH-1H’s crash site at the time. In April 1995, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team recovered remains associated with the loss of CPT Pool’s helicopter. In 2001, U.S. analysts identified some of the recovered remains as those of CPT Pool.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency