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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.
He was the eighth-longest-held U.S. prisoner of war (POW) held in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Butler, who was forced to eject after a mid-air explosion on April 20, 1965, [ 1 ] : 44 was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam until his release as part of Operation Homecoming in 1973. [ 2 ]
The attack left two Marines and one Navy Corpsman killed in action with another 91 wounded. Seventeen VC were killed during the battle along with four wounded who were taken prisoner. [4] MMAF saw the arrival of the first CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in South Vietnam when HMM-164 arrived on 8 March 1966 with 27 aircraft from the USS Valley Forge.
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 ...
During the Tet offensive attacks on Bien Hoa and Long Binh a People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong (VC) force attacked the camp. The attack was repulsed by a platoon from Company C, 4/12th Infantry and a platoon from Company D, 17th Cavalry and their M113 Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles. Twenty-six PAVN/VC were killed in the attack and ...
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.
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.
Chí Hòa Prison (Vietnamese: Khám Chí Hòa or Nhà Tù Chí Hòa) is a functioning Vietnamese prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare site [ 1 ] consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilities and prisoner's farmlands.