HEEREN, JEROME DONALD
| Name: Jerome Donald Heeren Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force Unit: 335th TFS Date of Birth: Home City of Record: Brookings SD Date of Loss: 11 September 1972 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 213300 North 1063000 East Status (in 1973): Returnee Category: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F4E Missions: 312 Other Personnel in Incident: Brian Ratzlaff, returnee, pilot |
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data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews. 2022
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SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
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UPDATE - 09/95 by the P.O.W. NETWORK, Skidmore, MO
JEROME D. HEEREN
Captain - United States Air Force
Shot Down: September 11, 1972
Released: March 29, 1973
I have been on active duty in the Air Force since June 1968. After
completion of navigator training I became a crew member of the F-4E and have
been assigned to the following units: 4456 CCTS Davis Monthan AFB Arizona;
421 TFS Danang AB Vietnam; and the 335 TFS Seymour Johnson AFB North
Carolina. My last squadron the 335th of Seymour Johnson was deployed to Ubon
Thailand in July 1972 and I was flying with that unit when I was shot down
on 11 September 1972. I was captured that same day about 40 miles northeast
of Hanoi and was held as a POW until March 29, 1973.
My stay in Hanoi was very brief and I am trying to forget about it as
quickly as I can. When I think of the faith, courage, strength, and
devotion to America displayed by those POWs who spent so many long years in
Hell, I am awed beyond words and I tend to think of my own experience as
being insignificant beyond mention. Those guys are my heroes.
Jerome and his wife Leanna reside in Georgia.
