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His C-46 aircraft was hit by ground fire and crashed, the crew parachuted to safety and were captured by the Pathet Lao. Escaped Pathet Lao prison camp with Dieter Dengler, Duane W. Martin and others on 29 June 1966, last seen alive on that date. Unaccounted for [19] [20] November 24: Cody, Howard R: Captain: USAF: 1st Air Commando Squadron ...
People executed by Vietnam (5 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Prisoners who died in Vietnamese detention" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
South Vietnam, Cam Lo District: Killed when a rocket hit the radio bunker at FSB Sarge [21] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] April 1: Worth, James F: Corporal: USMC: Sub-unit 1, 1st ANGLICO: Easter Offensive: South Vietnam, Firebase Gio Linh: Missing following a People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attack [22] Presumptive finding of death [3 ...
Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
LT George T. Coker, USN, shortly after his release from the POW camps in North Vietnam; March 1973. The Alcatraz Gang was a group of eleven American prisoners of war (POW) held separately in Hanoi, North Vietnam during the Vietnam War because of their particular resistance to their North-Vietnamese military captors.
A CH-46 succeeded in extracting part of the force, then a USAF F-4 Phantom was shot down. Another CH-46 came and extracted more of the force, but it was hit by antiaircraft fire and crashed from a height of 100 feet (30 m). The PAVN fired on the survivors in the wreckage killing many of them.
A Marine CH-46 is shot down during Operation Hastings. Operation Hastings was conducted by the 3rd Marine Division and ARVN 1st Division to push the PAVN 324B Division back across the DMZ. The operation resulted in 700+ PAVN killed and 17 captured and 126 Marines and 21 ARVN killed. [25]: 176 16 July
Pages in category "Prisons in Vietnam" ... Chí Hòa Prison; L. Lao Bảo Prison This page was last edited on 1 February 2020, at 00:44 (UTC ...