Commander Ralph Gaither’s look back at his 7 years as a Vietnam POW.
In May 1969, at the peak of the Vietnam War, two American prisoners of war escaped from a brutal North Vietnamese prison camp. Their story is one of incredible bravery against the longest of odds—and also one of bitter conflict. Air Force Captains John Dramesi and Ed Atterberry escaped with
Tom ‘Bud’ Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including the Silver Star, one of
February 1968. A helicopter goes down over the Vietnamese jungle. Sergeant Marcus Coleman survives the crash, the fire, and the capture. He does not survive it unchanged. They take his weapon. They take his dog tags. They take the photograph of his three-year-old daughter from his wallet and put it
An Inspirational Story of Self-Healing by the Famed Ex-Pow and War Hero Writing with Schreiner ( Mayday! Mayday! ), former Navy pilot Alvarez reports on his 1973 return to the U.S. after eight years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. The same patriotism and sense of duty that informed Chained
Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam War, targeting enemy missile sites. On a 1967 mission, when his wingmen ejected from their burning aircraft, Thorsness initiated attacks on enemy planes and other daring maneuvers in order to protect them. Two weeks later, he was
