HALL, GEORGE ROBERT

Name: George Robert Hall
Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force, pilot
Unit: 15th TRS
Date of Birth: 18 June 1930
Home City of Record: Hattiesburg MS
Date of Loss: 27 Spetember 1965
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 201600N 1055900E
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF101
Missions: 196

Other Personnel in Incident: none

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK 06 September 1996 from one or more of the
following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with
POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 021273 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).

GEORGE R. HALL
Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down: September 27, 1965
Released: February 12, 1973

Born: 18 June 1930 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Parents: Judge and Mrs. Stanton A. Hall of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Wife: The former Patsy Jane Stanley of Waco, Texas.
Married: 8 October 1955.
Children: Robert Stanton (25 November 1956), Laura Diane (27 November 1961),
Steven Douglas (15 February 1963).
Biography: Class of 1948, Hattiesburg High School. Attended "Ole Miss" one
year, 1948-1949. Class of 1953, US Naval Academy, Commissioned 2/LT. USAF, 2
June 1953. Pilot Training, 1953-1954. James Connally AFB, Texas, 1954-1958.
Lowry AFB, Colorado, 1958-1962. Kadena AB, Okinawa, 1962-1965.

My RF-101 was shot down by ground fire and I was captured on 27 September
1965. I was released on 12 February, 1973 and now reside at Hattiesburg,
Mississippi with my wife and children. I will attend the Air War College at
Maxwell AFB, Alabama, and continue my Air Force Career.

Message: My thanks to all Americans who were concerned for us. My thanks
to all who prayed for me, wore my bracelet, or just quietly supported our
government. We were not told by the North Vietnamese of how you cared about
us, but somehow we felt it, and this support gave us courage and strength. The
genuine happiness and relief I saw in the faces of the people who greeted us
upon our return to freedom, was the greatest emotional experience of my life.
It renewed my patriotic spirit and now motivates me to continue to serve my
country as a military man. My special thanks to our Commander-in-Chief,
President Nixon, for his strength which brought us home with honor.

December 1996
George Hall retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and
his wife Pat reside in Mississippi. Col. Hall has been extemely active with
the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Southern Mississippi
{located in Hattiesburg} (a.k.a. Southern Miss), and especially Detachment
432. In 1999, one of the cadets, Stephen Mathews, was rebuilding the
detachment's website honoring our POW/MIAs and the former POW their
detachment is named after, Col. George Hall. In this era of "marginal
military" it is a very good feeling to know they have such a wonderful
mentor and teacher. We know these cadets will take their next steps fully
aware of our nation's past, and remembering all who have gone before them.

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