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Operation Thunderhead would be America's last rescue mission in the Vietnam War.

A tribute to the U.S. Navy’s unsung role in the 1970 Son Tay raid—a story that was buried at the time.

The Son Tay Raid: U.S. Special Forces Risked It All to Save U.S. Prisoners All the Son Tay Raiders were awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest award for valor under fire, for the determination to go above and beyond the normal call of duty to save their compatriots. Six years of overt and covert war, mainly in South Vietnam but also in North Vietnam and the adjoining countries, had produced a lot of American prisoners of war, primarily aviators who had been shot down by North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire. The U.S. intelligence community estimated that by 1970 approximately 450...

Local veterans were remembered Monday in Fort Walton Beach during ceremonies at Beal Memorial Cemetery.

  DOWNLOAD HI-RESLieutenant General LeRoy J. Manor is the chief of staff, Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Hawaii. General Manor is responsible to the commander in chief, Pacific for management of key military staff activities requiring coordinated Air Force, Navy, Army and Marine Corps operations throughout the Pacific Command area. The Pacific Command is the United States’ largest unified command, encompassing some 100 million square miles from the West Coast of the Americas to the East Coast of Africa and from the Arctic to the Antarctic.  General Manor was born in Morrisonville, N.Y., in ...