Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy Manor served as a pilot in WWII and planned the Son Tay Raid in Vietnam. He died just four days after his 100th birthday.

The mission was daunting: rescue approximately sixty American prisoners of war from the Son Tay prison near Hanoi, North Vietnam. A special task force of the USAF trained for several weeks for the ...

When John Gargus helped plan the historic but un­successful raid to rescue U.S. prisoners of war from the infamous Son Tay compound in North Vietnam, radar-evading warplanes and stealth ...

This past Nov. 20 marked the 45th anniversary of the Son Tay Raid. The raid is an interesting, complex story in not only the planning, but also in the execution and results. The Son Tay Raid is ...

Smith’s F-105 fighter jet had been shot down, forcing him to spend time in Son Tay prison before the raid. He was repatriated in 1973.

Nov. 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the Son Tay Raid near Hanoi in North Vietnam, meant to rescue and return about 70 American prisoners of war.

The Son Tay raid was just a small phase of my life in Southeast Asia," said Fisk during a phone conversation from his home in New Hampshire.

The raid was an attempt to rescue prisoners of war being held at the Son Tay camp, roughly 23 miles from the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.

While the objective of the raid was to rescue POWs at the Son Tay prison, when U.S. forces landed and infiltrated the camp they found that the POWs had been moved.

The Son Tay Raiders and the POW's they attempted to rescue now gather for an annual reunion. The next is at Fort Bragg in September, just shy of the 46th anniversary of the raid.