Hayden Lockhart – First USAF POW in Vietnam
This story starts at takeoff at DaNang AB, South Vietnam on a bombing mission in North Vietnam about 7 miles North of the DMZ and ends at arrival at the infamous prison named by Vietnam POWs “THE HANOI HILTON”. MARCH 2-10, 1965
PREFACE
When people ask about being a POW, they want to know what the Hanoi Hilton was like. What happened in the Hilton was the same for all of us. But what happened before we got to the Hilton or some other site was quite different. Some pilots were shot down around Hanoi and immediately became POWs. Others marched long distances before they got to a camp. Some never made it to a camp those stories we will never hear; but most POWs have a unique story to tell about their shootdown and how they got to a POW camp.
The Solo Flight I first flew the “A” at Nellis, checking-out in the Hun in 1958. I had a couple of dual rides in the “F”, then a chase ride in the “A”. I was sent out to solo over Lak...
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The Super Sabre Society received the following information from Bill Fowler, son of F-100 Pilot Mel Fowler. My father, Lt Col Mel Fowler commanded several F-100 squadrons in Europe and Vietnam. His last command was the 5...
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The last F-100 left Vietnam for the U.S. Its departure ended the F-100’s combat employment which began in 1964 and produced 360,283 combat sorties with 243 aircraft losses. On 16 April 1961, six Super Sabres were d...
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With direction from the previous survey of the important factors in choosing a Reunion location, we requested members to recommend a place for the 2021 Reunion. The results are as follows: 341 members voted. Here are th...
24 July, 2019 No comment 2 LikesThis is a medical update from SSS Charter member George Buchowski who flew F-100’s with the 48TFW/493TFS, 309TFS and Misty’s followed by 30 years with Delta Airlines. I want to give an update on the results o...
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The Summer 2019 edition (Issue 40) of our journal went to our printer on 2 JUL and was delivered to our mailing contractor on 8 JUL. It is now winding its way through the process of getting your copy to you … wherever y...
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Another 4th of July is here and many of us remember that Independence is what we fought for, sometimes in the most difficult of circumstances and with great sacrifice. I just spent two wonderful days in Yellowstone Natio...
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The 2019 Super Sabre Society reunion was held on 15 thru 19 May in San Antonio Texas. Home base was the Menger hotel which is a beautiful historic hotel in the Alamo Plaza area. This report is not a compilation of remark...
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Super Sabre Society member Rufus “R.C.” Lilley, Jr., LtCol USAF (Ret) Headed West on September 15, 2019. Rufus flew F-100’s with the 121TFS/113TFW in the DC Air National Guard, VA Air National Guard, a...
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David K. Burke, Col. USAF (Ret) “Headed West” August 9, 2019 SSS member Col. David Kim Burke (USAF, Ret) from Hollister, MO was stepping out of his RV on August 9, 2019, fell, and hit his head. He was taken t...
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Daryl Hubbard, LtCol USAF (Ret) passed away peacefully on August 29, 2019, after a rough 9 month battle with pancreatic cancer. He flew F-100’s with the 36TFS, 615TFS, 612TFS from 1960-67. Daryl was a member of the...
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SSS Member David O. Williams (BGen, USAF Ret.) Headed West August 18, 2019. D.O. was a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He flew P-40, P-47, F-84, F-101, F-10o, F-4, and F-15. He served in the Organization of the Joi...
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“I’d rather be flying” William Leslie (Les) Broomall, Jr, 87, passed away peacefully at home on July 31, 2019. Born July 31, 1932, in Chester, Pennsylvania, eldest son of William Leslie and Catha...
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Col. Louis Anthony Silvestri, Jr., USAF (Ret.) “Headed West” July 21, 2019 Montgomery – Col. Louis Anthony Silvestri, Jr., USAF (Ret.) age 80, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2019. He was born July 25, 193...
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Super Sabre Society member Air Force Lt. Col. A. T. Ballard, Jr., 87, of Spartanburg, SC, died Thursday, May 23, 2019. Lt. Col. Ballard was the second son of nine children born to Arthur T. Ballard, Sr. and Carrie DeStaf...
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Col. John “Jack” Gilchrist “Headed West” July 7, 2019 SSS Member Jack Gilchrist passed away suddenly on July 7, 2019. He had been admitted to the hospital two weeks earlier for kidney stones. Unfo...
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“Misty 101” James A. Nugent “Headed West” May 26, 2019 Col. James (Jim) Andra Nugent (USAF, Ret.), died May 26 at the VA Hospice in Lexington, KY. Jim graduated from Tioga High School in 1958 and went on to a distinguish...
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Colonel Douglas R Young of Henderson, NV (USAF, Ret.) “Headed West”, May 21, 2019. Doug was born on January 29, 1938, to Burton H and Marjorie D (Reiniger) Young of Rathdrum, Idaho. He graduated from Washing...
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