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November 14, 2009

Former Vietnam POW Gets His Wedding Ring Back

Returned 44 Years After Being Captured

On October 5, 1965, Colonel James Hivner, then a Captain, had just dropped a load of munitions on a target from his F-4C Phantom fighter-bomber when his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire. It was the second time he'd been hit during that sortie, and that one brought the aircraft down.

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