The Missing Man; Politics and the MIA
Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xii,121, [3] pages. Contains About the Author, Foreword, and Preface. Includes Introduction; The Arithmetic of War; The Status Determination Process; Domestic Developments; Paris, January 1973--and its Aftermath; The Ford Administration--An Interim; President Carter and the MIA Issue; and Conclusions. Also includes Abbreviations Used in the Text, and a Bibliography, as well as tables on Geographic Distribution of Casualties Not Recovered, and POW's/MIA's by Service. Also contains a Figure on Reduction in POW's/MIA's Due to Status Changes. Captain Douglas L. Clarke, a naval aviator and a 1978 graduate of the National War College, has spent the majority of his career in operational billets. In 1965, as a member of a propeller-driven A-1 "Skyraider" squadron, Captain Clarke flew his first combat mission in Southeast Asia. Three-hundred missions later in 1973, as Commander of an A-7 "Corsair" squadron aboard the aircraft carrier Midway, he participated in the last American combat sorties of the war. Captain Clarke is one of the few naval aviators to have accomplished over 1,000 carrier-arrested landings. The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Commander [then Lieutenant] Douglas L. Clarke, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during a search and rescue flight deep in hostile territory over North Vietnam on 17 October 1965. More