11/21/1970: Operation Ivory Coast – Son Tay POW Prison Raid
By 1970, the U.S. knew there were at least 350 American prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prison camps, in addition to POWs shuffled between makeshift camps in South Vietnam and Laos. One such camp was in Son Tay, some 23 miles west of Hanoi, North Vietnam’s capital. Despite being only a few miles away [...]