The author provides insights into his life as Vice Consul in Cambodia during the 1960s, and of the operations of an overseas Diplomatic Mission and the peculiarities of the situation in Cambodia.
The first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war. Post Views: 638
When his electronic warfare plane, call sign Bat 21, was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after
Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never
A former POW describes his experiences in a North Vietnamese prison camp, enduring hunger, torture, and the threat of death, while his wife describes her attempts to locate him and have him released. Post Views: 456
The stories of eight former prisoners of war, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, released by Viet Nam after years of captivity, based on interviews with them, and with the wife of a still missing man. Photographs. Index. Post Views: 509
