“See You Guys After The War”: An Air Force Pilot In Peace, War, And Captivity (Elmo Baker)

ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… 4 FEBRUARY 1968… THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE… (Carl Laister)

“Major Carl Light Pistol 02 described the incident involving Capt Lasiter as follows: ‘As we approached a point about 30 miles west of the target, I saw Pistol Four burst into flames and immediately afterward a MiG-21 approached from his six o’clock position and pulled up and to the left

P.O.W.S: At Last the Story Can Be Told (Rodney Knutson)

For weeks the returned P.O.W.s had been stepping from “freedom birds” onto the television screens—most of them saluting crisply, walking smartly, looking physically fit and acting mentally alert. As the nation’s early apprehensions faded, a new idea set in: perhaps the P.O.W.s had been humanely treated after all. That illusion

Vietnam War 50th Anniversary: POW Charles Brown highlights Westover’s historic role at Great New England Air Show breakfast (Padgett)

For Charles A. Brown Jr., his story is less important than those of the people with whom he served at Westover Air Reserve Base. “Everyone’s heard my story,” the now retired Air Reserve colonel says. In a nutshell, Brown’s story goes something like this: Young man from Greater Boston joins the

Fighting for survival behind enemy lines (Frederick Crowson)

“It was survival. We were in survival mode every day.” And Army Command Sgt. Maj. Frederick Crowson remembers every one of those days he was held captive in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Prisoners of war and those missing in action have long told their stories of capture, torture and

Vet has no regrets about Vietnam (Thomas Collins)

Thomas Collins III would like to clarify one point about his bombing missions in Vietnam, and the more than seven years he spent as a prisoner of war: It was not a mistake, not a waste, not a failure. “We needed to stop communism,” says Collins, 74, a retired U.S.