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 prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasn’t all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a “school” bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers weren’t Vietnamese . . .
Daddy won’t be home for a long time : a collection of children’s letters to Hanoi seeking release of the American prisoners of war
Published in 1971, this is a collection of children’s letters to Hanoi seeking release of American prisoners of war. Post Views: 511
