Although C-141 StarLifter aircraft had flown many military and humanitarian missions, none was more significant than the mission flown by… Read More
Retired USAF Col. Joe Kittinger, whose 1960 parachute jump from almost 20 miles above the Earth stood as a world… Read More
‘The mission was a complete success. No one could believe that we came within two seconds of the mark,’ Colonel… Read More
The gun turret operators among the prisoners said that there was no way they could rotate their turrets fast enough… Read More
“I thought to myself ‘this is it - I’m a dead man,’” Lt. Col. Rob Sweet, last serving USAF POW… Read More
The MC-130P #66-0212 that took part in the special forces raid on Son Tay to rescue prisoners of war being… Read More
To ensure that the POWs directly involved in Operation Thunderhead were fully aware of the CinC's approval of the plan,… Read More
On his 30th mission in Desert Storm, enemy forces shot down Lt. Col. Rob “Sweetness” Sweet’s A-10 Thunderbolt II attack… Read More
The Hanoi Taxi flew two missions into Hanoi, carrying out 78 POWs and two civilian returnees to the Philippines, and… Read More
More than 400,000 of the 16 million Americans who served in WWII perished during the conflict, and 72,766 remain missing… Read More
"I thought about my family a lot. I felt that if I was reduced to counting the bricks in the… Read More
