PITCHFORD, JOHN JOSEPH JR.
Name: John Joseph Pitchford Jr.
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O3
Unit:
Date of Birth: May 29, 1927
Home City of Record: Natchez MS
Date of Loss: 20 December 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212500 North 1070500 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F100F #1231
Missions: 3
Other Personnel in Incident: Robert Trier, remains returned 1982
Refno: 0216
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews. Update 2023.
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The Honorable John Pitchford retired from the United States Air Force as a
Colonel. He passed away 12/02/2009.
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/obits/2009/dec/05/john-jack-pitchford/
John "Jack" Pitchford, Natchez1927 - 2009 |
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Jack Pitchford; was POW at 'Hanoi
Hilton' December 4, 2009
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a
fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the
notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the "Hanoi
Hilton," has died. He was 82.
The Natchez, Miss., native died Wednesday after battling a brain tumor, said his brother, 64-year-old Jim Pitchford of Baton Rouge, La......
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Community gathers to remember war heroPublished Tuesday, December 8, 2009 NATCHEZ — No one came to St. Mary Basilica to say goodbye to local war hero Col. John Joseph “Jack” Pitchford Monday. They came to say “Godspeed Jack.” ..... |
Natchez knew a great heroPublished Friday, December 4, 2009 Every community has its heroes, but not every hero is the same. Natchez just lost one of its heroes and one of America’s heroes, too. The seven years Col. Jack Pitchford spent in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp were years none of us can even imagine. ..... |