Meet the Hero: Douglas Hegdahl

The Way We Were: The POWs came home in 1973 (Tabb, Schrump, Crowson, Hardy)

Almost 50 years ago this month, they began to arrive. It was called Operation Homecoming, and it saw 591 American military prisoners of war finally free after years of often brutal captivity in Vietnam. Over several weeks in February and March of 1973, they were returned to military bases in

NORTH VIETNAM TRIED TO EXPLOIT AMERICAN RACISM WITH POWS. IT DIDN’T WORK (Fred Cherry)

Air Force Maj. Fred V. Cherry, the pilot of an F-105D Thunderchief shot down by anti-aircraft fire on Oct. 22, 1965, was sitting in a dark 10-by-12-foot cell in North Vietnam. His left foot was wrapped in a cast and his left arm in a sling. Suddenly the cell door

3 P.O.W.’S ADMIT TALKING TO FOE (Coker, Mehl, McLeary)

Three Navy airmen told yesterday of having given information under torture to the North Vietnamese. But each said he had been able to offer some, resistance and none seemed in any way apologetic. “I would say I did not break,” said Capt. James P. Mehl of Hauppauge, L. I., a

Faith, Re-birth ofFreedom, and Pride (Ralph Browning)

I was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines in February 1973. I was fortunate to be able towitness the return of the POW’s as they were brought to Clark Air Base from Hanoi after release fromvarious camps across the country.There were seven dates in February and March 1973

Vietnam POW from Virginia Beach dies at 77 (Jack Fellowes)

Retired Navy Capt. John H. “Jack” Fellowes, a pilot from Virginia Beach who was held at the “Hanoi Hilton” as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, has died from congestive heart failure, his family said. On Aug. 27, 1966, Lt. Cmdr. Fellowes and his bombardier-navigator, Lt. j.g. George Coker, also