The event had a total guest list of more than 1,300 that included movie stars Bob Hope, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, along with performances by Sammy Davis Jr., Irving Berlin and Vic Damone.
“I had probably the most embarrassing capture in the entire Vietnam War ... superior officers in the POW camp – who ordered him to accept early release, which US military prisoners are ...
The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S. Canberra firing at Communist targets from the warship ... who’d never seen the ...
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