MYERS, GLENN LEO

Name: Glenn Leo Myers
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 1941
Home City of Record: Pittsburgh PA
Date of Loss: 09 August 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 175300 North 1062600 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: RF4C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

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.

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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).

GLENN LEO MYERS
Captain - United States Air Force
Shot Down: August 9, 1967
Released: March 14, 1973

"Thanks, this is the greatest thing in the world," said Captain Glenn Myers
about the flag which he received at a welcome home reception in Penn Hills,
Pennsylvania.

Captain Myers had left for Southeast Asia June 3, 1967. He flew an RF4-C
(photo reconnaissance) out of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. He was
on a combat mission when he was shot down August 9, 1967. He was reported
missing in action for 31 months. His status was changed to prisoner of war
March 9, 1970 when his first letter was received. He was held in a North
Vietnamese prison camp for five years, seven months.

A Pennsylvanian by birth, he was born in East McKeesport in 1941 and was
graduated from Penn Hills High School in 1959. In 1965 he was graduated from
The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina with a B.S. in chemistry. He was
commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in January 1965 and in 1966 finished pilot
training and photo reconnaissance crew training. He was thereafter a member
of the 22nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron until June 1967 when he was
captured.

"Welcome Home - We Love You" was the greeting on a sign displayed at the
Pittsburgh International Airport when he arrived. "This reception is taking
my breath away," Captain Myers said. "Thank you for your support while I was
there."

"Many days as I sat in Hanoi without much to do, I thought of days I had
spent in Penn Hills. I recalled just about every nook and cranny of
Frankstown Road and Saltsburg Road and Verona Road, every road I could think
of and every little house, and every face I could think of."

When a flag was hoisted on the airport flagpole, he told what he felt: "It
meant a lot to us to raise that flag we fought for (for) so long, and that
you backed us for."

December 1996
Glenn Myers retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt Colonel. He and
his wife Audrey reside in Maryland.

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