Did Hanoi Jane Pass Notes Handed to Her by US POWs to Vietnamese Captors? (Larry Carrigan)

David B. Grant: Phantom Pilot and Prisoner of War

On June 24, 1972, U.S. Air Force Captain David B. Grant was flying a mission couple posing for picturefrom Thailand into conflict-ridden North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom took a direct hit and exploded. The fuselage was separating when both Grant and his “back-seater,” Bill, ejected through the fireball. They

Decorated Vietnam War pilot, ex-POW dies in Las Vegas (James O’Neil)

Retired Air Force Col. James W. O’Neil, a decorated Vietnam War pilot and ex-prisoner of war who spent six months in the “Hanoi Hilton” Hoa Loa prison camp, died June 7 of complications from a heart ailment, his widow said. He was 82. He will be buried at noon Monday

An Air Force captain cooked up a way to help fellow POWs survive the Cambodian jungle (George Wanat)

On June 27, 1972, U.S. Air Force Capt. David E. Baker flew his O-2 Skymaster over Cambodia in an attack on North Vietnamese supply stashes. As a forward air controller during this Vietnam War mission, he traveled low and slow, marking targets and coordinating airstrikes in his prop-driven plane. The

‘I shouldn’t be alive’: At reunion of Vietnam POWs, one recounts his capture 47 years ago (Lewis, Berg)

After more than five months in which he had no control over his life, Keith Lewis found a world of virtually unlimited possibilities when he emerged from captivity in early 1973. He chose religion. Lewis’ F-4 fighter-bomber had been shot down over Vietnam in October 1972. Saturday will mark the

Ex-POW ‘found the good’ in people (Kenneth Fleenor)

Somehow, five years and three months of captivity that included starvation and torture in North Vietnam did not change Ken Fleenor. He was the same man his wife, Anne, met long before, when she was a high school senior and he was a junior majoring in biology and agriculture at