How a Navy sailor fell off his ship, played dumb — and became a Vietnam POW hero
The front-page newspaper photograph was striking on the morning of April 6, 1967 — a dramatic image showing the U.S.S. Canberra firing at Communist targets from the warship’s position in the Gulf of Tonkin. Little did those readers know – his shipmates certainly didn’t – that one of the Canberra’s most junior sailors was struggling … Read more