
Joe Crecca – North Bend POW imprisoned with McCain recalls when plane was shot down
Major Joe Crecca, a veteran of the Air Force remembers in vivid detail the November day in 1966 when his F-4 was shot down.
US Air Force Fighter Pilot Colonel Elmo Baker

Major Joe Crecca, a veteran of the Air Force remembers in vivid detail the November day in 1966 when his F-4 was shot down.

Interview with Rick Bates, former US Air Force F-4 pilot, and Vietnam War POW. Rick talks about his experience in the Air Force and as a POW in Hanoi, North Vietnam.

Hear from, and about the exciting life of, Lt. Col (Ret.) Barry B. Bridger, a six year survivor of Hoa Loa Prison, who was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over a North Vietnamese city in January of 1967. Ignoring international agreements on treatment of prisoners of war, the enemy resorted to mental and physical cruelties to obtain information, confessions and propaganda materials. Barry Bridger resisted their demands by calling upon his deepest inner strengths

