THE WALL OF FACES

CAPT Michael Lewis Hyde is buried in Lot 6, row B, site 45 of the United States Air Force Academy Cemetery in Colorado Springs, CO. His remains were found in 1990 and identified in 1991.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Welcome Home

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am heartened you returned home though I wish it had been under very different circumstances. May you rest in eternal peace.

I am the Curator of the POW/MIA Bracelet Display in the Vietnam Hangar of the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California where we now have over two thousand bracelets and would be honored to include your bracelet in our Display. If you are an immediate family member (spouse, fiancé, sibling, son, daughter or grandchild) I can order one for the Display in your name.
Dr. Dave Thompson
Palm Springs Air Museum
POW/MIA Bracelet Display Curator
Lt. Commander U.S. Navy 1964-1970
10-103 Lakeview Dr. Rancho Mirage, Ca 92270
760-328-0859 [email protected]

The "Friends of Rocky Versace" remember one of Rocky's fellow Service Academy graduates, former MIA Captain Michael Lewis Hyde, USAFA Class of 1960, on what would've been his 82d birthday - 14 May 2020.

CAPT Michael L. Hyde was a U.S. Air Force pilot serving with the 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On December 8, 1966, he piloted a USAF North American F-100D Super Sabre (#56-3063) on a strike mission over enemy targets in South Vietnam. His F-100D aircraft was observed to make a dry pass over a target and then assume position for a napalm pass. Hyde radioed he sighted Viet Cong on the ground and immediately thereafter the aircraft crashed at an approximately 10-degree angle. It was believed the Super Sabre had been hit by enemy ground fire. Efforts to locate the crash site and recover his remains following the crash were unsuccessful. In 1990, the Vietnamese government repatriated remains to the U.S. which on April 16, 1991, the Central Identification Lab-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) positively identified as those of Hyde. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, airforce.togetherweserved.com, dpaa.secure.force.com, and the book “F-100 Super Sabre Units of the Vietnam War” by Peter E. Davies and David Menard]