A local war hero who spent seven years in a prisoner of war camp with Arizona Senator John McCain has died.
74-year-old retired Air Force Colonel Warren Lilly died over the weekend after a sudden fall.
Lilly was shot down over Cambodia during the Vietnam War and spent more than seven years as a prisoner of war.
The United States and Vietnam have agreed to make a joint effort to resolve the lingering question of the 1,758 American military men still unaccounted for in Vietnam, American officials said today. The State Department said American and Vietnamese officials had just held four days of talks in Hanoi and
It was nearly 54 years ago, in 1966, when retired Air Force pilot, Col. Michael Lane was shot down in North Vietnam. He spent 2,270 days (nearly six and a half years) living in the Hoa Lo Prison camp, better known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” His first experience was being
Memories of being caged, shackled and exposed to the powerful herbicide Agent Orange linger in the mind of retired U.S. Army Captain Isaac “Ike” Camacho, the first American to escape a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam. Still, Camacho, who spent nearly two years as a prisoner of war, said
David Everson got zapped on March 10, 1967. He fired a missile at his target then two seconds later heard a crack on the left side of his Thunderchief F-105. The shell didn’t explode, but it ripped into the main structural spur of his left wing, nearly flaying it from
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