The story of George “Bud” Day who flew F-100s on perilous MISTY FAC missions and then as a POW in North Vietnam became one of America’s greatest heroes and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Operation Linebacker is the story of the moment the Vietnam War changed shape, when a conflict that had dragged on through frustration, constraint, and public exhaustion suddenly demanded a decisive answer. In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a major conventional assault known as the Easter Offensive. It was

“If hell is here on earth, it is located on an oddly shaped city block in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam,” writes Sam Johnson, who lived in that hell for seven years. Col. Samuel R. Johnson, U.S. Air Force, was shot down in April, 1966, while flying his twenty-fifth mission over North

1. Introducing the POW/MIA Controversy 2. Live POWs in Southeast Asia? Says Who? 3. Scuttled Rescues? Debunked Reports? 4. Does Anyone Really Care? 5. Fake Remains? Whose Are They? 6. How Are POWs Treated? How Do They Live? 7. Castro’s Sadistic Cuban Interrogators Tortured POWs? A shocking expose of the

Twelve days that shook the world. The beginning of the end.By the end of Day 9, the bombing of North Vietnam had taken an enormous toll. The planners were running out of suitable targets because the damage inflicted on most targets was higher than initially predicted. It became questionable whether

Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The