A thoroughly enjoyable first-hand account of Smith’s search for American MIAs in 1990s Vietnam.
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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

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

On August 23, 1967, Major Mo Baker, after flying sixty-one missions over North Vietnam, was shot out of the sky over Hanoi by enemy anti-aircraft fire. Thus began a five and a half year ordeal of survival in the prisons of North Vietnam, including the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Serve With


Jack Van Loan was a United States Air Force fighter pilot. In 1967, he was flying as wingman for Colonel Robin Olds when his F-4 Phantom jet was shot down. He spent six years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Alongside such legends as Robbie Risner, James Stockdale,