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                                             THE HANOI HILTON

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                            MY ADOPTED POW/MIA

               HARLEY H HALL 

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Gregory Z. Payne writes:

I light this candle in the honor of the last POW/MIA casuality of the Vietnam War 1973: U.S.N. COMMANDER HARLEY HUBERT HALL F4-J Phantom fighter jet pilot Vancouver, Washington In dedication and in honor from The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 512 Vancouver, Washington "We Salute You, Sir!" Author: Gregory Z. Payne E-mail: tetee199thlib@usa.com       Added: March 29, 2008

    

  (THE MUSIC YOU ARE LISTENING TO IS THE

           "UNITED STATES NAVY HYMN")

                  PLAYED IN HONOR OF

      U.S.N. COMMANDER HARLEY H. HALL

                     HARLEY H HALL   

HALL, HARLEY HUBERT REMAINS RETURNED 06/95 (I.D. disputed)

Name: Harley Hubert Hall Rank/Branch: O5/US Navy, pilot Unit: 

Fighter Squadron 143,

USS ENTERPRISE 

(CV-65) Date of Birth: 23 December 1937 (Broken Bow NE) Home City

of Record: 

Vancouver WA Date of Loss: 27 January 1973 Country of Loss: South 

Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 165129N 1071023E (YO345650) 

Status (in 1973): Prisoner of War Category: 1 Acft/Vehicle/Ground

: F4J Other Personnel In Incident: Phillip A. Kientzler 

(released 1973) 

Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 April  1990 from 

one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government 

agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published 

sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK 2008.

REMARKS: KIENTZLER TOLD HALL KILLED

SYNOPSIS: CDR Harley H. Hall was the commanding officer of 

Fighter Squadron 143 onboard 

the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE. On January 27, 1973 he and 

his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), LTCDR Philip A. 

Kientzler, launched in their F4J Phantom fighter aircraft on an 

attack mission against North Vietnamese supplies and logistic 

vehicles 15 miles northwest of Quang Tri, South Vietnam. Hall 

and Kientzler were under the direction 

of an OV10 Forward Air Controller 

(FAC).CDR Hall's aircraft came under intense anti-aircraft fire 

while attacking several trucks and was hit. He made an attempt 

to fly back out to the safety of the sea, but minutes later the 

aircraft caught fire on the port wing and fuselage. Both Hall 

and his co-pilot, LCDR Philip A. Kintzler ejected at 4,000 feet 

and were seen to land 100 feet apart near a village on an island 

in the Dam Cho Chua and Cua Viet Rivers. CDR Hall was seen moving

about on the ground, discarding his parachute. No voice contact 

was made with the men, and the probability of immediate capture 

was considered very high. Numerous aircraft made several passes 

over the area for the next several

hours and were unsuccessful in observing either of the downed 

crewmen. Several emergency beepers were heard intermittently the 

remainder of the afternoon and throughout the night, however, no 

voice contact was established. Active, 

organized search and rescue efforts were subsequently terminated. 

Only Kientzler was released at Operation Homecoming in 1973. He 

reported that during parachute descent they 

received heavy ground fire, at which time he was hit in the leg. 

He last saw CDR Hall as they touched the ground. When he asked 

his guards about his pilot, he was told that he was killed by 

another. No other returned POW reported having knowledge of 

Harley Hall, yet the Pentagon maintained him in POW status for 

over 6 years, and documents were obtained that indicated that he 

was indeed captured. The Hanoi government claims to have no 

knowledge of CDR Harley 

Hall. This former member of the famed Blue Angels flight team 

remains missing. Harley Hall was shot down on the last day of 

the war and was the last Navy air casualty of the Vietnam War. 

He was the last American to be classified Prisoner of War in the 

Vietnam War. Harley H. Hall was promoted to the rank of Captain 

during the period he was maintained as a prisoner.

                                     [hhall.95 08/22/95]

    DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY      WASHINGTON,  D.C. 20340                                           

DIA EVALUATION OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 

OF VIETNAM IN THE CASE OF COMMANDER HARLEY HALL, USN On 13 July 

1988, during a remains repatriation ceremony in Hanoi, 

representatives of the Vietnamese Office For  Seeking Missing 

Persons (VNOSMP) furnished Joint Casualty 

Resolution Center (JCRC) officials with six written investigative 

reports. In the case of Commander Harley H. Hall, USN, the 

written report reiterates much of the information previously 

furnished by the U.S. in the JCRC negotiation narrative. It goes 

on to claim that a  "team" as well as two "VNOSMP" specialists," 

visited the location where the Navy officer was; lost, researched

historical documents in the villages and talked to "individuals 

directly related to this incident.

" According to the report, "Commander Phillip" (LCDR Phillip 

Kientzler, returnee) was captured; the other commander was found 

dead and buried in a trench. The investigative team claims to 

have visited the grave site and observed that it had been 

exhumed and the remains taken. The local populace allegedly told 

the team that "from about 1981-1982 up until the present time, 

many people from different areas came to rob the grave, a total 

of as many as eight occasions, the most recent being February 

1988 Because of this, nothing is left in the grave site 

to be recovered. The local authorities carried out an 

investigation concerning the grave robbery but without results.

"The report concludes with the comment that the investigative 

team is not able to recover the remains of this pilot.

While we have no information which would indicate that Commander 

Hall survived to become a captive of the Vietnamese, the claims 

made by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam  (SRV) authorities 

regarding this incident stretch credulity and totally contradict 

their known policies and practices in handling remains of 

Americans based upon all-source intelligence collection efforts 

over a period spanning more than two decades, we can state with 

certainty that there is a centrally administered program which 

Outlines strict procedures for handling the remains of Americans. 

Throughout the war the Communist forces enforced a policy to 

find and bury Americans killed in action, and captured enemy 

documents continually stressed that this effort was important to 

the "political struggle." The procedures required that a full 

written report on the incident be prepared, to include a sketch 

of the burial location. When possible, photos of the Americans 

were supposed to be taken, and all personal effects documents, 

maps, etc. were to be forwarded with the written report up the 

chain of command to Hanoi. 

Americans were buried in marked graves in well defined (if 

primitive by U.S. standards) cemeteries. Buried with them would 

be a paper which included the American's name, date, place and 

cause of death. This procedure was also followed in burying 

Vietnamese soldiers killed in battle. Vietnamese public health 

laws require that remains be buried for at least three years 

before they are exhumed (a common Vietnamese practice) and 

reinterred in a final location. In the case of many Americans, 

after being buried for three years or more, remains were probably

prepared and stored in a warehouse type situation.  In the 

specific instance of Commander Hall, if indeed he died at the 

time of his loss incident, one must presume that the outlined 

procedures were followed and he was not simply buried in  a  

convenient nearby trench. Further, the area area where he was 

lost  was under the control of combat troops at the time, which 

calls into question the Vietnamese claim that it was necessary 

to review village historical documents (which probably do not 

exist) and talk to villagers allegedly involved in the incident. 

Further, had villagers been interviewed and local documents 

researched, the VNOSMP representatives would have certainly 

discovered information on the two Americans who were lost in this 

same area only minutes after Commander Hall's aircraft was 

downed. The claim that the grave was repeatedly robbed by "many 

people from different areas," is highly implausible. In general,

Vietnamese citizens are highly superstitious about the dead and 

are not roaming the country robbing graves. Further, as all 

personal effects would have been previously forwarded to Hanoi, 

it should be well known to any would-be grave robbers that there 

is nothing of monetary value in the grave Over the past several 

years numerous SRV actions and statements appear to be aimed 

toward creating the illusion that they have difficulty accounting

for missing Americans because private citizens are recovering 

and trafficking in remains. This is simply not the case. 

In summary, the report furnished by the SRV is implausible and 

in direct conflict with their known policies and practices. 

Based on the circumstances of Commander Hall's loss we believe 

the communist government of Vietnam has more information and for 

reason; known only to them has decided to concoct this story 

instead. 

TO: Department of Defense From: Mary Louise Hall (Mrs. Harley 

Hall) DATE:   September 13,1993   

RE: ALLEGED "ACCOUNTING" for "REMAINS" OF POW HARLEY H. HALL, USN

(3 FRONT TEETH)

  QUALIFIED ACKNOWLEDGMENT UNDER PROTEST FOR OBJECTIVITY AND 

TRUTH            

Dear Sirs:

In response to the recent recovery of three of Capt. Harley 

Hall's front teeth from the site of his downing and capture on 

1 1/27/73 3 in Quang Tri Province, I would like the following to

go on record: While I acknowledge these to be three of my 

husband's correctly identified teeth (confirmed by a dental 

expert), I object most strenuously to the inference that they 

constitute evidence of death, and I by no means acknowledge or 

accept them as an accounting of the person of Harley H. Hall. 

As suc