GIDEON, WILLARD SELLECK

Name: Willard Selleck Gideon
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O4
Unit:
Date of Birth: 03 June 1931 Takoma Park MD
Home City of Record: Arlington VA
Date of Loss: 07 August 1966
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 212000 North 1063200 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105D #1758
Missions: 55
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0420

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.

REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and
spelling errors).

WILLARD S. GIDEON
Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down August 7, 1966
Released: March 4, 1973

Born June 3, 1931 in Takoma Park, Maryland. Graduated from Washington and
Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia in 1949. Graduated from Butler Prep
School in Silver Springs, Maryland in 1950. I joined the Air Force in
February 1952 and entered Aviation Cadets in January 1953. Graduated in
March 1954 from Williams AFB, Arizona.

I flew 55 missions in North Vietnam from both Korat and Takhli. I was shot
down on 7 August 1966 about 25 miles northeast of Hanoi flying an F-105D. I
have spent my entire career flying fighters in the States, Europe and the
Far East. The fighter business has always held the most interest for me and
I hope to continue in this branch of flying after completing the Air War
College in May 1974.

I have two children. Our son, Willard is 17 and a senior in high school. Our
daughter, Georgia is 15.

It is wonderful, beyond description, to be back in this great nation of ours
once again. My eternal gratitude is with all of you who have supported the
POW/MIA program.

December 1996
Willard Gideon retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and
his wife Jeannine reside in South Carolina.

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