IBANEZ, DI REYES

Name: Di Reyes Ibanez
Rank/Branch:USMC, E2
Unit: 3rd Marine Division 3rd Recon Bn.
Date of Birth: 19 June 41
Home City of Record: San Diego, CA
Date of Loss: 05 June 67
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 163800N 1064700E
Status (in 1973): Missing
Category: 2
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground

Other Personnel In Incident:

Source: Compiled by THE P.O.W. NETWORK 02 February 1993 from the following
published sources - POW/MIA's -- Report of the Select Committee on POW/MIA
Affairs United States Senate -- January 13, 1993. "The Senate Select
Committee staff has prepared case summaries for the priority cases that the
Administration is now investigating. These provide the facts about each
case, describe the circumstances under which the individual was lost, and
detail the information learned since the date of loss. Information in the
case summaries is limited to information from casualty files, does not
include any judgments by Committee staff, and attempts to relate essential
facts. The Committee acknowledges that POW/MIAs' primary next-of- kin know
their family members' cases in more comprehensive detail than summarized
here and recognizes the limitations that the report format imposes on these
summaries."

On June 5, 1967, Sergeant Ibanez was a member of a 3rd Marine Division
reconnaissance patrol in Quang Tri Province. Shortly after midnight, a
guard heard a moan and the sound of brush breaking from the area where
Sergeant Ibanez was sleeping. A later search party recovered his rifle and
pack. In the morning a patrol located a partial dental plate and blood
trail. The blood trail led along a path from his last known location to a
nearby village. A search of the area turned up freshly dug foxholes with
evidence of recent occupancy and signs that something had been dragged along
the trail. The partial plate was described by the unit's dental surgeon as
identical to the teeth artificially replaced. Sergeant Ibanez was never
found.

Sergeant Ibanez was initially declared missing. In March 1978, he was
declared dead/body not recovered. He was not reported alive in the
Vietnamese prison system by returning U.S. POWs.

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