NEW OLD STOCK ORIGINAL, VIETNAM PERIOD P.O.W. M.I.A. BRACELET PRODUCED IN NICKEL SILVER AND SO MARKED INSIDE BAND. BRACELET BODY IS IMPRESSED "LT COL = W.N. "NEWK" GRUBB, JAN 26 1966" . BRACELETS WERE PRODUCED BETWEEN 1970-1976! NEW OLD STOCK 1970S PRODUCTION. MAY HAVE SPOTS OF TARNISH/ PATINA & SCUFFS INSIDE BRACELET BAND FROM PRODUCTION AS THESE ARE MADE FROM NICKEL SILVER. SEE ALL 10 PHOTOS. Wilmer Newlin Grubb
On January 26, 1966,THEN Captain Newk Grubb was the pilot of an RF101C Voodoo reconnaissance aircraft sent on an unarmed photo reconnaissance mission over Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. The flight occurred during a Christmas bombing halt. As Grubb's aircraft was about twenty miles southwest of the city of Quang Khe, it experienced difficulty in gaining altitude and crashed into a hillside.The next day the communist New China News Agency began publicizing the capture of Newk Grubb, followed closely by the Hanoi propaganda machine.