88th Air Base Wing issued the following announcement on Dec. 04.
The story of the Son Tay Raid was detailed in an Air Force Magazine feature in November 1995. Planning began in the spring of 1970 when it was reported that an increasing number of American prisoners had died from beatings, torture and starvation by their North Vietnamese captors. At the time, more than 450 Americans were held captive in the undeclared war in Southeast Asia, 80 percent of them in North Vietnam. More than half had been in prison longer than 2,000 days. (United States Air Force story and photo by Wesley Farnsowrth)
Read the full story at https://www.wpafb.af.mil/.../fifty-years-later-ohio.../
Original source can be found here.
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