When the number of former prisoners of war receiving benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs nearly doubled without explanation, an American survivor of the “Hanoi Hilton” wanted answers.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Retired Navy Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr. flew one of the first combat missions of the Vietnam War in August 1964, soon after President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation the United ...
Doug Hegdahl, pictured in captivity around Christmastime in 1968, was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam in 1967 when he fell overboard – paving the way for him to become the ...
The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S.