US Air Force Fighter Pilot Colonel Elmo Baker
US Air Force Fighter Pilot Colonel Elmo Baker
The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years. It was the first war the U.S. had lost. However, the return home of the Prisoners-of-War was widely celebrated. They were held captive for almost nine years, the longest of any American war. Those pilots who survived shootdown were held in secluded prisons, hidden from the outside world except for occasional propaganda films.In 1992 I received permission from the Vietnam government to return to Hanoi and the prison
The Dewey Wayne Waddell story of how he ended up being a prisoner at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Dewey Wayne Waddell was taken captive after his F-105 Thunderchief was shot down by Vietnamese communist fighters in 1967, and he was released many years later, in 1973. North Vietnam’s treatment of American airmen shot down and captured over North Vietnam was a subject of controversy and concern throughout the Vietnam War. From the very beginning of
Retired Colonel Ed Hubbard gives an impassioned speech to the attendees of the 2017 EANGUS Conference held in Reno, NV.
Col. Ron Byrne – Filmed in Prescott Arizona. F86, F105, POW, Hanoi Hilton,