Peter Dean Hesford

Vietnam War
Unit390th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankMajor U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromMystic Connecticut
Date of DeathMarch 21 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Notes
Major Hesford was a member of the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam. On March 21, 1968, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) on a mission 20 miles southwest of the Ban Karai Pass, Laos. His aircraft was struck by hostile fire and crashed on the side of a hill. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.