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BELL, JAMES FRANKLIN
RIP 10/01/2014
Name: James Franklin Bell
Rank/Branch: United States Navy/O4
Unit: RVAH 1
Date of Birth: 29 April 1931
Home City of Record: Cumberland MD
Date of Loss: 16 October 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 211700 North 1074200 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RA5C
Missions: 35
Other Personnel in Incident: Capt. James Hutton, returnee
Refno: 0166
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: 730212 RELEASED BY DRV
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James Bell retired from the United States Navy as a Captain. He and his wife
Dora resided in Virginia until his passing.
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CAPT James F. Bell, USN Ret (RIP)
NAMPOW
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Retired Navy Capt. James Bell is being
remembered as a hero for enduring 7 1/2 years as a prisoner of
war after the plane he was flying was shot down over Vietnam in
1965.
The Washington Post reports that Bell died Sept. 30 in Alexandria at age 83. His widow, Dora, says he died of complications from Parkinson's disease. Bell was born in Akron, Ohio, and attended high school in Cumberland, Maryland. He graduated in 1954 from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Bell described his treatment as a POW in a number of books, including one written by his wife. He said he spent about two months in leg chains for refusing to fill out a questionnaire that he thought might be used for propaganda. |
Jim will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery....March 20, 2015. The service
will
be at the Old Chapel on Fort
Myer at 11 a.m.
and a reception will be held at Fort Myer
Officers Club after the internment.
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