WALKER, HUBERT C

Name: Hubert C. Walker
Rank/Branch: O3/United States Air Force, EWO
Unit: 41st TEWS
Date of Birth: 26 October 1941
Home City of Record: Tulsa OK
Date of Loss: 14 January 1968
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 193300 North 1043300 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Missions:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: EB66C

Other Personnel in Incident: Pilot, Sonnie Mercer, escaped/evaded/rescued
but died from injuries; INST NAV, Pete Pedroli, escaped/evaded/rescued;
EWO Thomas Sumpter, returnee; EWO Ronald Lebert, returnee; NAV Irby Terrell,
returnee; EWO Lt. Thompson, escaped/evaded/rescued.

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: 730314 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).
UPDATE - 09/95 by the P.O.W. NETWORK, Skidmore, MO

HUBERT C. WALKER
Captain - United States Air Force
Shot Down: January 14, 1968
Released: March 14, 1973

I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 26 October 1941. I lived there until 1950 when
I moved to Whitwell, Tennessee to live with my grandmother until 1957. I then
returned to Tulsa where I finished school and graduated from the University of
Tulsa in 1963. I majored in Chemical Education (BA) and Mathematics (BS). I
was also married in 1963 and joined the Air Force. I was in the Atlas F-ICBM
field for a year and a half. I then went to Communications Officer School at
Keesler AFB, Mississippi, and Navigation Training School and Electronics
Warfare Officer School at Mather AFB, California. I arrived at Takhli AFB, on
28 November 1967 and was shot down six weeks later on 13 January 1968. I was
one of seven men on an EB-66-C. The other POWs with me were Ron Lebert, Tom
Sumter, and Dave Terrell.

I returned on 14 March 1973 five years and two months (almost to the hour) to
find that my wife had filed for a divorce while I was a POW. I have two girls,
Donna Christine, born 15 June 1966, and Doriann Jeannette, born 11 September
1967.

I will be flying C-141's from Travis AFB, California soon.

December 1996
Hubert Walker retired from the United States AIr Force as a Colonel. He and
his wife Viki reside overseas.

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