Seven American prisoners of war were seen and two were interviewed by this reporter to day in a small prison camp on the outskirts of Hanoi.
They indicated that the con ditions of their captivity were satisfactory, and they spoke calmly but with obvious feeling about the war and of their con cern for its impact on America.
The prisoners each appeared to this correspondent to be alert, physically fit, well clothed and not apparently under weight.
Come join our Deckerville area resident, Vietnam POW survivor and now retired United States Air Force Colonel Robert A. Abbott, as we step back 50 years to March 31, 1973.
Jack Van Loan, an Oregon native and fighter pilot who spent six years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and then served for 20 years as executive director of the Five Points Association in Columbia, has died. He was 87. “He was a mentor,
On March 15, a Dinner – Dance was held at the Santa Fe Elks Lodge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of former Vietnam Prisoner Of War Juan Jacquez. Juan was one of the last American Prisoners released by the North Vietnamese after the signing of the Paris
Some veterans are honored for conspicuous courage in the face of the enemy, and others for excellent performance in command of great fleets. Admiral Edward H. Martin is here recognized as a hero in both arenas. Martin continued to serve his country and the city of Coronado even in retirement.
Fifty-six years after being designated a naval aviator, a former prisoner of war once again landed on the deck of an aircraft carrier — at one of Naval Air Station Lemoore’s F/A-18 Super Hornet flight simulators. “I got it, I got it,” exclaimed Capt. (Ret.) Theodore Kopfman as he sat