The mission was daunting: rescue approximately sixty American prisoners of war from the Son Tay prison near Hanoi, North ...

Nearly 44 years ago, 50 U.S. Special Forces Soldiers took part in a military operation to raid a Vietnamese prison and rescue American Prisoners of War. Each volunteered to take part in a secret ...

Filmmaker Ehren Parks learned about the Son Tay Prison raid from the guys who actually went there. Now he's screening a film about the raid for them.

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy Joseph Manor, known for commanding the special operations raid on the Son Tay prison compound in Vietnam, died Thursday, just four days after his 100th birthday.

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. Related: DELTA FORCE’S JUMP HATER’S CLUB: NOT ALL ...

"We were absolutely elated when we learned of the raid," Maj. R.E. Smith, an F-105 pilot who spent time in Son Tay prison before the raid, said after he was repatriated in 1973.

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. "I am just so extremely honored that they thought it ...

While the prisoners of war at the Son Tay camp had been moved and ... Middleton was not a part of the raid that happened on Nov. 21, 1970, ...

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. Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jay Strayer, who was ...

What do the Son Tay Raid and Operation Eagle Claw have in common? Not much, looking at the operations themselves. But special operators from both missions have come together in recent years for ...