April 5, 2024
COL COLONEL CHARLES E SHELTON AMERICA'S LAST VIETNAM WAR POW BRACELET KIA MIA
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Listed is the POW bracelet for " Colonel Charles E Shelton". Colonel Charles E . Shelton was America's Final Official POW. Bracelet is signed "KY", from the KY & Co. Jewelry.(reprinted from Wikipedia) Charles E. Shelton (born April 29, 1932) was a United States Air Force officer who was shot down during the Vietnam War over Laos during a reconnaissance mission on April 29, 1965. His 33rd Birthday. His fate is unknown and he was classified as a prisoner of war until 1994, making him the last official U.S. prisoner of war from the Vietnam War. [ 1] After his plane was shot down, Shelton sent a radio report that he had escaped by parachute. A helicopter was dispatched to retrieve him, but was unable to reach him due to poor visibility. Six days after his capture, his wife was informed that villagers said he had been captured by Laotian communist forces. He is believed to have been held as a prisoner of war and his family was told stories of his courage while imprisoned, but he was never released or accounted for. His wife, Marian Shelton, sought to find him and became an active participant in the POW-MIA movement. In October 1990 she committed suicide, apparently due to frustration and despair over her inability to find him. [ 1] [2 ]In September 1994, the Air Force reclassified him as killed in action upon the request of his children
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