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Article: The Son Tay Raid: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten.(Book review)
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- Military Review
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- September 1, 2008
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THE SON TAY RAID: American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten, John Gargus, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Tx, 2007, 352 pages, $29.95.
With The Son Tay Raid, John Gargus has produced one of the finest military history works of 2007 on the Vietnam War, a splendid and thorough account of the 20 November 1970 Son Tay raid that goes well beyond previous works such as Benjamin Schemmer's The Raid: The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission (Ballantine Books, New York, 2002). Through meticulous research of newly declassified documents, unpublished sources, and his own comprehensive interviewing of the participants, Gargus captures the spirit of this unique ...
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... ... prisoners were being held at the Son Tay camp, located 23 miles west of Hanoi ... after the raid. Training for the Son Tay raid began in the summer of 1970 at Eglin ... raid. Within 1.5 years of the Son Tay mission, three of the five HH ...
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