Texas veteran shot down in Vietnam on 7 years as POW at ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison camp: ‘You keep faith’ (James Lamar)

7 years in Hanoi: Retired captain reflects on time as Airman POW (Art Cormier)

Graduates from one of Lackland’s last Officer Candidate School classes, including an honorary class member and former Vietnam prisoner of war, reunited here to commemorate their 50th-year anniversary. Members of OCS Class 62-A, which graduated Sept. 22, 1961, were honored as special guests during the Sept. 23 Air Force Basic

NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY (Kay Russell)

March 29 is National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Two years ago, we were fortunate to receive a donation from the son of CAPT Kay Russell, a naval aviator who served time in a North Vietnamese POW (prisoner of war) camp. When I first saw the shirt he wore as a

Hanoi Allows Interview With 2 P.O.W.’s (William Mayhew)

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

Lehigh Valley Hero (Robert Biss)

Their code was to return with honor. The inhumane treatment can hardly be understood by most of us. As prisoners of war in Vietnam, it was desperate at times after the torture, but Capt. Robert Biss says he always knew he was coming home.

40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF EX-VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR (Juan Jacquez)

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