POW John McCain Memorial, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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Memorial of an american POW during Vietnam War.
Waymark Code: WM19WK2
Location: Vietnam
Date Posted: 04/26/2024
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You are in front of the memorial of an event in 1967 during the Vietnam War.
The text on the Memorial reads:
“On 26 October 1967 at Trúc Bach Lake, Hanoi’s people and armed forces captured U.S. Naval Air Force Lieutenant Commander John Sidney McCain who flew the A-4 aircraft shot down at the Yen Phu power plant. His was one of ten planes shot down that day.”
in October 1967, McCain was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early release. During the war, he sustained wounds that left him with lifelong physical disabilities
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