Former POW to talk in Carlisle about experiences at Hanoi Hilton
Published: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 4:18 PM
BRIDGER, BARRY BURTON
Name: Barry Burton Bridger
Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force
Unit: 497th TFS
Date of Birth: 16 July 1940
Home City of Record: Bladenboro NC
Date of Loss: 23 January 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 211000 North 1053700 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4C
Missions: 53
Other Personnel in Incident: David Gray, returnee
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. Updated 2023.
REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV
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Barry Bridger retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Col. He and
his wife Sheila reside in Kansas.
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Former POW to talk in Carlisle about experiences at Hanoi Hilton Published: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 4:18 PM
For the cost of donating one
canned food item to Project
Share, you can hear the
story of a man who survived
six years as a prisoner of
war in North Vietnam’s Hanoi
Hilton. Retired Air Force
Lt. Col. Barry Bridger will
speak at the Carlisle
Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Jan.
27......
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