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.

After the war in Vietnam ended, the American public was told that all of our POWs had been returned and accounted for. But we ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Before that, however, he served in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam in 1970 ... There, they become prisoners of war in a place in which no one has ever heard of Geneva, never mind the Geneva ...

A Vietnam prisoner of war who spent years in ... 12, 1973, as part of the Operation Homecoming wherein all U.S. prisoners, including then-Lt. Cmdr. John McCain, who also flew the A-4 Skyhawk ...

Alvarez spent eight years and seven months as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down over Vietnam on Aug. 5, 1964. He was returned to active flight status in the U.S. Navy and retired in ...