Commander Ralph Gaither’s look back at his 7 years as a Vietnam POW.
The Vietnam War lasted nine years (1964-1973) with Americans finally leaving in 1975 during the fall of Saigon. In 1966, two years after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, fifty American pilots and aircrewmen held captive by the North Vietnamese in the most horrible conditions were put on dramatic public display
Published in 1971, this is a collection of children’s letters to Hanoi seeking release of American prisoners of war. Post Views: 621
On March 23, 1961, Bob Bailey became the first American prisoner of war in Southeast Asia. A combat veteran of World War II and Korea, Bailey was assistant Army attache in Laos when communist Pathet Lao guerrillas shot down the unarmed C-47 transport plane in which he and seven companions
Thirty-five long years and I was still seeking answers. If I could make someone in the government listen to the facts, I knew they’d want to act on them. After all, who wouldn’t want to find one of our POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War? IS ANYBODY LISTENING? tells of dignitaries,
