HUGHES, JAMES LINGBERG
RIP June 4, 2012
Name: James Lindberg Hughes
Rank/Branch: O5/United States Air Force
Unit: 469th TFS
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record: Waterloo IA
Date of Loss: 05 May 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 210100 North 1053000 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105
Missions: 50+
Other Personnel in Incident: none - other incident same day, Gordon Larson,
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. 2023
REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV
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James Hughes retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and
his wife Paula reside in Arkansas.
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London Daily Mirror
Thursday 24 January 2002
VIETNAM WAR HERO CONDEMNS CAMP X-RAY
From Mark Coleman In New York
America's most famous prisoners of war called yesterday for better treatment
of the Camp X-Ray inmates.
Col James Hughes, captured in Vietnam and pictured being frog marched at
gunpoint through the streets, said he felt sorry for them....
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http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=68956 Love never fails: Former P.O.W. shares his story Feb. 12, 2010 By Erin Nipper Col. James L. Hughes and his wife Paula have a love story with all of the makings of a movie script: adventure, a hero and love. Hughes survived two wars before serving in Vietnam -- first in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then in the Air Force during the Korean War. .....
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