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Vietnam War veteran from Marietta returns to the place he was held as prisoner (Dewey Waddell)

A retired Air Force pilot from Marietta, who was a prisoner of war in north Vietnam for six years, was back in Hanoi this week, so he could be there on the same day, 50 years ago—March 4, 1973—when he was freed and when his second chance at life began,

Vietnam War Fighter Pilot Presents His Story of Six Years as a POW (Ken Cordier)

On July 1, retired USAF Col. Ken Cordier recalls his amazing story of patriotism and endurance as a fighter pilot and POW during the Vietnam War. Cordier was forced to eject from his F-4C Phantom jet when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile on Dec. 2,1966. He was immediately

A City in Conflict – Rochester During the Vietnam War (Bruce Archer)

Six months before American combat troops were committed to Vietnam, Eugene Richardson, a 21-year-ld flight mechanic from Monroe County was killed while flying ammunition to a Special Forces camp on October 24, 1964. Rochester soon became economically involved in the war. General Dynamics, Stromberg-Carlson, Graflex, EastmanKodak, Bausch and Lomb, and

Vietnam POWs are reunited in San Antonio, honored by Air Force (Trimbley, Marshall, Carl Jefcoat)

The morning he flew his 266th mission over Vietnam, Air Force Capt. Tony Marshall only knew the pilot in the seat in front of him, Capt. Steve Cuthbert, by reputation. Tall and thin with a shock of sandy blond hair, Cuthbert never suffered a lack of confidence flying the F-4 Phantom. “He told

Ex-POW ‘found the good’ in people (Kenneth Fleenor)

Somehow, five years and three months of captivity that included starvation and torture in North Vietnam did not change Ken Fleenor. He was the same man his wife, Anne, met long before, when she was a high school senior and he was a junior majoring in biology and agriculture at

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Vietnam War veteran from Marietta returns to the place he was held as prisoner (Dewey Waddell)

Vietnam War Fighter Pilot Presents His Story of Six Years as a POW (Ken Cordier)

A City in Conflict – Rochester During the Vietnam War (Bruce Archer)

Vietnam POWs are reunited in San Antonio, honored by Air Force (Trimbley, Marshall, Carl Jefcoat)

Ex-POW ‘found the good’ in people (Kenneth Fleenor)

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