Bush, Elbert Wayne
Army Staff sergeant

Elbert Wayne Bush, age 26, from Jackson, Mississippi, Hinds county.

Parents: Elbert Bush Sr. and Jewel Bush

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Forest Hill High graduate

Date of death: Monday, January 8, 1973
Death details: On October 5, 1999, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Elbert Wayne Bush, missing from the Vietnam War. Sergeant First Class Bush joined the U.S. Army from Mississippi and was a member of the Headquarters, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. On January 8, 1973, he was a passenger aboard a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 69-15619) on a support mission over Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. The Iroquois was shot down during the mission, and SFC Bush was killed in the incident. Enemy presence in the area prevented ground searches for the helicopters and its crew at the time. In 1996, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese investigative team recovered remains from a site associated with SFC Bush’s loss. In 1999, forensic analysis identified some of the recovered remains as those of SFC Bush.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Claion Ledger (1990, 2000)