|  EVERSON, DAVID Name: David Everson Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O4 Unit: 354 TFS Date of Birth: 04 September 1931 Home City of Record: Aitkin MN Date of Loss: 10 March 1967 Country of Loss: North Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 214400 North 1055000 East Status (in 1973): Released Prisoner Of War Category: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105F #8335 Missions: Other Personnel in Incident: Jose Luna, returnee Refno: 0612 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). DAVID EVERSON Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force Shot Down: March 10, 1967 Released: March 4, 1973 I was born in 1931 and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Duluth, Minnesota in 1954 and entered the Air Force in 1955. I went through pilot training and flew fighters at various bases in the United States and in the Far East until I was shot down several miles north of Hanoi. I was flying a F-105 Thunderchief out of Takhli, Thailand. I arrived back in the States on March 7, 1973 just three days less than six years from the day I was shot down. I have three children. Duaghter DeAnn is 18 and a freshman in college. Davy is 15 and a sophomore at Coon Rapids High School. Danny is 12 and in the 7th grade. My children waited for me in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The tremendous welcome that I had and the other returned POWs have received makes me feel very proud and at the same time very humble. I know many men have been killed or crippled in this war. Very few of the men who returned earlier received half the welcome accorded the POWs. I hope we will all remember the families of these men and try to insure that their children will have the same opportunities that your children and mine will have. I was very happy and proud on the day of mv release because we were able to return home with pride. Thank you for all your kindness and God bless you all. December 1996 David Everson retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and his wife Ann reside in Minnesota.
 
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