PARSELS JOHN W

MAJ John W. Parsels was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 05/11/2017 at the age of 71.9
Tampa, FL
Flight Classes 68-524 and 68-44
Date of Birth 06/28/1945
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with HHC 5 TC BN 101 ABN in 69, 2 BDE 101 ABN in 70, POW in 70-73
Call sign in Vietnam BRANDY
This information was provided by POW Network

More detail on this person: John Parsels passed on May 11th and his funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, May 16th at 1400 hours at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church located at 509 N. Florida Avenue, Tampa, FL 33602.

For those of you that didn't know John he is a Life Member of VHPAF and was captured in 1970 and repatriated in 1973. As you may imagine the time he spent as a POW was very hard and only a brave person could have lived through it. When he returned and joined the VHPAF, John donated his POW "uniform" to the VHPAF and it is currently on display as a part of our Memorabilia display in The Florida Air Museum in Lakeland.

This information was last updated 03/24/2022

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Date posted on this site: 03/10/2024


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