“I thought to myself ‘this is it – I’m a dead man,’” Lt. Col. Rob Sweet, last serving USAF POW and…
Losses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
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Prisoner Of War
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Aviation HistoryMilitary Aviation
Venerable MC-130P Combat Shadow that Took Part in Son Tay Raid Going to Castle Air Museum
by Dario LeoneThe MC-130P #66-0212 that took part in the special forces raid on Son Tay to rescue prisoners of war being held…
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Cold War EraMilitary AviationSR-71 Blackbird
Sound of Freedom over Hanoi: how two SR-71s Generated Tri-Sonic Booms to Free US POWs in North Vietnam
by Dario LeoneTo ensure that the POWs directly involved in Operation Thunderhead were fully aware of the CinC’s approval of the plan, a…
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On his 30th mission in Desert Storm, enemy forces shot down Lt. Col. Rob “Sweetness” Sweet’s A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft,…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The story of C-141 Hanoi Taxi, the first Aircraft to Return Vietnam Prisoners of War to the U.S.
by Dario LeoneThe Hanoi Taxi flew two missions into Hanoi, carrying out 78 POWs and two civilian returnees to the Philippines, and four…
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Aviation HistoryMilitary AviationWarbirds
Missing P-47 Thunderbolt pilot from WW II found
by Dario LeoneMore than 400,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII perished during the conflict, and 72,766 remain missing The…
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“I thought about my family a lot. I felt that if I was reduced to counting the bricks in the cell,…
