Volume I of this two volume set includes the names of all U.S. Air Force Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war, as well as the citations for nearly 2,000 awards of the Bronze Star and higher.
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Volume I of this two volume set includes the names of all U.S. Air Force Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war, as well as the citations for nearly 2,000 awards of the Bronze Star and higher.

On 22 December 1972, an F-111 call sign Jackel 33 was flying a night strike mission over North Vietnam. Jackel 33 was manned by its pilot, Captain Bob Sponeybarger and its Weapons System Operation, 1stLt William (Bill) Wilson. Jackel 33’s assigned targets were the river docks in the middle of

Written in 1975, Norman A. McDaniel’s “Yet Another Voice” was his catharsis at making sense of his experiences of enduring seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 Although he endured severe physical and mental torture meted out by

This is a narrative drawn from the era of the Southeast Asian conflict, detailing a unique event in that lengthy struggle. The event was called LINEBACKER II, a nickname like thousands of others, used to identify an operation, project, or mission associated with military affairs. It so differed from the

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of

Twelve days that shook the world. The beginning of the end.By the end of Day 9, the bombing of North Vietnam had taken an enormous toll. The planners were running out of suitable targets because the damage inflicted on most targets was higher than initially predicted. It became questionable whether