Former POWs reunite 40 years later (Brian Woods)

Several San Diego County-based former Vietnam POWs … Among those attending the reunion was Brian Woods … Woods was the first POW to return after

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15 Iowa POW’s get medals Duane Vavroch

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Shell that downed Utahn in Nam finds him again (Dale Osborne)

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