“Freedom has a taste to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.”
–A POW saying left on a wall in the Hoa-Lo Prison known to Westerners as the “Hanoi Hilton.”
A small American flag on display at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum was a patriotic light in the dark days of the Vietnam War.
Air Force pilot Col. John A. Dramesi was shot down over North Vietnam and captured . . .
Edward Martin wound up in the hands of the North Vietnamese much the way Sen. John McCain and Vice Adm. James Stockdale did — the Navy commander’s A-4 Skyhawk was hit by enemy fire during a bombing mission and downed just southeast of Hanoi. And like McCain and Stockdale, his
The Vietnam War was, essentially, an internal conflict between communist forces in North Vietnam and the pro-western government in South Vietnam. It had begun as a war between colonial French and nationalist Vietnamese armies, but after France’s devastating defeat in the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ in 1954, the country
For nearly a year, Kailua resident Emilia Thomas never knew that her husband, a Marine Corps aviation observer, was alive after being shot down in Vietnam and being held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. “That’s the only thing that still bothers me,” said retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer
I arrived at Udorn RTAFB in early May, 1967, to fly A-1E and A1-H Skyraider with the 602nd Fighter Squadron (Commando). I was to fly 247 combat missions during three consecutive tours and participated in the rescue of 18 aircrew members. On May 31, 1968, going for number 19, I
Six men assigned to AFVN were taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, five specking about years in