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    The Sơn Tây prison camp was a POW camp operated by North Vietnam near Sơn Tây and approximately 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi in the late 1960s through...
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    landed 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers by helicopter at the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp, which was located 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi, North Vietnam...
    67 KB (9,026 words) - 03:58, 1 August 2024
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    and other camps became less severe and generally more tolerable. Following the late 1970 attempted rescue operation at Sơn Tây prison camp, most of the...
    24 KB (2,847 words) - 22:10, 20 July 2024
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    at the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam (Operation Ivory Coast).[citation needed] Afterwards, the United States Army Ranger training camp at Epler...
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    province was a name blending of two former provinces, Hà Đông and Sơn Tây. Hà Tây province was located in the Red River Delta bordering Hanoi municipality...
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    Donut Day, in a successful ruse by American prisoners of war at Son Tay prison camp to trick the North Vietnamese into giving out donuts in honor of...
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    unsuccessful raid into North Vietnam to rescue prisoners-of-war from the Son Tay prison camp, as well as in the operation to rescue the crew of the freighter...
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  • Air Base on 16 April 1975.: 268  He was then transported north to Sơn Tây prison camp where he underwent repeated interrogation, sleep deprivation and...
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  • United States prisoners of war during the Vietnam War (category Vietnam War prisoner-of-war camps)
    population of Camp Faith was approximately 220 POWs. Three days after the Sơn Tây Raid, Camp Faith POWs were moved to Hỏa Lò prison in Hanoi. Camp Hope, also...
    37 KB (4,665 words) - 18:42, 28 July 2024
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    independence Battle of Hanoi (1946) Operation Rolling Thunder Hà Tây province Sơn Tây prison camp Operation Ivory Coast APEC Vietnam 2006 Millennial Anniversary...
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    (Grade Indochinois) would attack and prevent French troops at Don Thuy, Son Tay, and Bac Ninh from coming to the aid of the Citadel of Hanoi; and Hoang...
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    The Tây Sơn wars or Tây Sơn rebellion, often known as the Vietnamese civil war of 1771–1802, were a series of military conflicts that followed the Vietnamese...
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  • failed Son Tay prison camp rescue, the bombing of Hanoi, and the death of Ho Chi Minh, the prisoners are gathered in the open area of the prison compound...
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    operational phase of the attempted rescue of prisoners of war from Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam on 21 November 1970. 64-0523 was drawn from the...
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    Benning to serve as a team leader for the initial assault team in the Son Tay prison camp raid. This 14-man team (plus pilots), code-named Blueboy, intentionally...
    19 KB (1,230 words) - 12:56, 4 June 2024
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    local disputes led to colonialist massacres at Haiphong, "Langson" (Lạng Sơn) and "Tourane" (Da Nang). The French had balked at granting the DRV independence...
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    Coast was a failed mission to rescue U.S. prisoners of war from the Son Tay prison camp conducted by U.S. Special Forces and other elements of the U.S. military...
    86 KB (11,520 words) - 03:41, 29 July 2024
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    Pacific and Asia. The wing provided photographic intelligence for the Son Tay prison camp raid named Operation Ivory Coast, in North Vietnam, November 1970...
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    failed Sơn Tây prison camp POW rescue mission in November 1970. Its objective was the rescue of approximately 90 American Prisoners of War from the camp. The...
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  • eulogized by fellow POW, General Charles G. Boyd. Cellmates at the Sơn Tây prison camp, which was later the scene of an attempted rescue of American prisoners...
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